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Stellarium

A realistic, real-time 3D simulation of the night sky.

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Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

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Features

  • Realistic simulation of the sky, sunrise and sunset
  • Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
  • Downloadable additional catalogues for up to 210 million stars
  • Catalog data for all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects
  • Images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way
  • Artistic illustrations for all 88 modern constellations
  • More than a dozen different cultures with their constellations
  • Solar and lunar eclipse simulation
  • Photorealistic landscapes (more are available on the website)
  • Scripting support with ECMAScript (a few demo scripts are included)
  • Extendable with plug-ins: 8 plug-ins installed by default, including:
  • artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database)
  • ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular)
  • Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC)
  • telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible)

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User Reviews

  • lumpiluk
    1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5

    Very useful and beautiful! I sometimes use it to identify stars and planets in my photographs -- works perfectly :-)

    Posted 07/18/2013
  • timopheybrown
    1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5

    Know nothing about astronomy, but Stellarium is amazing!! Now I can see the star i want to))

    Posted 07/18/2013
  • oid-3791299
    1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5

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    Posted 07/18/2013
  • keatah
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    Once you get everything tweaked "just so" this is really quite an excellent program. And the beauty part of it (other than the nice graphics) is that it is updated from time to time.

    Posted 07/18/2013
  • grecosurf
    1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5

    So a realistic simulator that is fully immersed in this world and forget about their problems. I advise everyone who wants to relax

    Posted 07/18/2013
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Intended Audience

Education, End Users/Desktop, Science/Research

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Registered

2002-03-13

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