Freeware Descriptions:

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.

Here is complete features (taken from authors site):
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Features:
Sky:

  • over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue with info
  • asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
  • images of nebulae
  • realistic Milky Way
  • very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
  • the planets and their satellites

Interface:

  • a powerful zoom
  • time control
  • multilingual interface
  • scripting to record and play your own shows
  • fisheye projection for planetarium domes
  • spheric mirror projection for your own dome
  • graphical interface and extensive keyboard control

Visualisation:

  • equatorial and azimuthal grids
  • star twinkling
  • shooting stars
  • eclipse simulation
  • skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection

Customisability:

  • add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts…

Stellarium 0.10.2 Screenshot


File Size / OS:

  • 40.92 MB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista

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