Additional Information
A free open source desktop planetarium for your Mac
| Latest Version | Stellarium 24.1 |
| Requirements |
macOS 10.12 Sierra or later |
| Updated | March 27, 2024 |
| Author | Fabien Chereau |
| Category | Desktop Enhancements |
| License | Open Source |
| Language | English |
| Download | 139 |
Overview
Stellarium for Mac is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. Features of Stellarium for macOS:
Sky
Sky
- Default catalog of over 600,000 stars
- Extra catalogs with more than 210 million stars
- Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- Constellations for twelve different cultures
- Images of nebulae (full Messier catalog)
- Realistic Milky Way
- Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- The planets and their satellites
Interface
- 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
Visualization
- Equatorial and azimuthal grids
- Star twinkling
- Shooting stars
- Eclipse simulation
- Supernovae simulation
- Skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
Customizability
- Plugin system adding artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
- Ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
- Add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
Note: Requires 64-bit processor.
