Additional Information
A free open source desktop planetarium for your Mac
| Version | Stellarium 25.4 |
| Requirements |
macOS 10.12 Sierra or later |
| Updated | December 30, 2025 |
| Author | Fabien Chereau |
| Category | Desktop Enhancements |
| License | Open Source |
| Language | English |
| Download | 812 |
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.
Previous versions More »
25.4
December 30, 2025
513.61 MB
25.3
October 01, 2025
420.93 MB
25.2
June 24, 2025
412.01 MB
25.1
March 25, 2025
407.4 MB
24.4
December 24, 2024
369.81 MB
24.3
September 24, 2024
368.38 MB
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