Stellarium (original) (raw)

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

Features

Realistic simulation of the sky, sunrise and sunset
Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
Downloadable additional catalogues for up to 210 million stars
Catalog data for all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects
Images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way
Artistic illustrations for all 88 modern constellations
More than a dozen different cultures with their constellations
Solar and lunar eclipse simulation
Photorealistic landscapes (more are available on the website)
Scripting support with ECMAScript (a few demo scripts are included)
Extendable with plug-ins: 21 plug-ins installed by default, including:
artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database)
ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular)
Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC)
telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible)
Remote control via web interface plug-in
3D landscapes plug-in

Project Samples

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

User Ratings

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Been using Stellarium for years now and it's really amazing for studying the stars. Also, if you're in the mood for stargazing but it's cloudy outside, then it's a not too bad substitute.
1 user found this review helpful.
Stellarium is a classic, standard de facto, virtual planetarium program for PC.
2 users found this review helpful.
The best astronomy Sky Map ever made ! I have many commercial softwares, but Stellarium is one, if not the best of them. So many things it has that it´s impossible to list here. You´d better give it a try, but I know you already have. Great !
1 user found this review helpful.
No help menu. Pretty useless for beginners. If you are new to astronomy, like me, you need to look for something more basic - like I will now. Still, only £2.99 wasted. Could be worse.
One of the best planetarium software ever. Excellent 3D support.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows

Languages

Croatian, Thai, Tamil, Romanian, Korean, French, Ukrainian, Dutch, Persian, Polish, Irish Gaelic, Lithuanian, Albanian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Czech, Finnish, Italian, Catalan, Greek, Vietnamese, English, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovak, Chinese (Traditional), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Swedish, Turkish, Hindi, Indonesian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, German, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Hungarian, Basque (Euskara)

Intended Audience

Science/Research, Education, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

X Window System (X11), OpenGL, Win32 (MS Windows), Qt

Programming Language

C++, C, GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language)

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2002-03-13