Java version of Stellarium.

Features

  • a powerful zoom, time control, multilingual interface, fisheye projection for planetarium domes, spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome, all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control, telescope control
  • catalogue of over 600,000 stars, asterisms and illustrations of the constellations, constellations for twelve different cultures, images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue), realistic Milky Way, very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset, the planets and their satellites
  • equatorial and azimuthal grids, star twinkling, shooting stars, eclipse simulation, skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
  • add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

Project Samples

A night sky with constellations' lines A twilight sky, with the floating toolbar Sky with equatorial grid controlled by configuration panel

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Categories

Simulation Games, Astronomy

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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  • tfileme Posted 2013-05-20
    Stellarium4java is perfect! Thanks.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • larry3406 Posted 2010-02-20
    Bravo pour ce travail splendide ! C'est incroyable qu'il n'y ait pas plus de retours. Peut-être faudrait-il une traduction française ?
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Additional Project Details

Languages

Afrikaans, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese

Intended Audience

Education, End Users/Desktop, Science/Research

User Interface

Java Swing, OpenGL

Programming Language

Java

Database Environment

Flat-file

Related Categories

Java Simulation Games, Java Astronomy Software

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2005-11-22
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