Get the sky in your PC.
Posted by F. S. KAMAL on November 14th, 2008
Would you like to stare at the night sky in the comfort of your home ? Stellarium will allow you to do that. A free and open source planetarium for computers, the software displays a realistic sky in 3D on your monitor. All you need to do is set your coordinates.
Main features:
sky
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default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
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extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
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asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
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constellations for eleven different cultures
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images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
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realistic Milky Way
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very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
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the planets and their satellites
interface
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a powerful zoom
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time control
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multilingual interface
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fisheye projection for planetarium domes
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spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
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all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
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telescope control
visualisation
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equatorial and azimuthal grids
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star twinkling
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shooting stars
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eclipse simulation
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skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customisability
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add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts…
The software is available for various platforms and a user guide is there to help you.
Download your free copy: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.