Additional Information
A free open source desktop planetarium for your computer
| Latest Version | Stellarium 23.1 (32-bit) |
| Requirements |
Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10/Windows 11 |
| Updated | June 25, 2023 |
| Author | Fabien Chereau |
| Category | Desktop Enhancements |
| License | Open Source |
| Language | English |
| Download | 87 |
Overview
Stellarium 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:
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
- The 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...
