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A free open source desktop planetarium for your Mac

Latest Version Stellarium 24.3
Requirements

macOS 10.12 Sierra or later

Updated September 24, 2024
Author Fabien Chereau
Category Desktop Enhancements
License Open Source
Language English
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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
  • 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.

Previous versions More »

24.3 September 24, 2024 368.38 MB 24.2 June 26, 2024 366.55 MB 24.1 March 27, 2024 365.15 MB 23.4 December 25, 2023 363.54 MB 23.3 September 27, 2023 358.13 MB 23.2 July 04, 2023 340.92 MB