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.
Sky
- Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- Extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- Constellations for twelve different cultures
- Images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
- 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
Visualisation
- Equatorial and azimuthal grids
- Star twinkling
- Shooting stars
- Eclipse simulation
- Supernovae simulation
- Skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
Customizability
- plugin system adding artifical 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...
What's New
The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.22.1.
The major changes of this version:
- Added fixed equatorial grid/line
- Added new sky cultures
- Fixed building Stellarium (AppImage)
- Updated DSO catalog
Enjoy!
Full list of changes:
- Added Khoikhoi and San sky culture (GH: #2396)
- Added Xhosa sky culture (GH: #2395)
- Added fixed equatorial grid/line (GH: #2399)
- Added DSO names (GH: #2387)
- Fixed building AppImage/x86_64 package
- Fixes various typos in sky cultures (GH: #2400)
- Fixed rendering 3D models for solar system bodies (GH: #2367)
- Changed screenshots naming: properly detect largest screenshot number (GH: #2379)
- Updated DSO catalog (v3.15): updated visual magnitudes for Messier objects from RNGC/IC catalog by Wolfgang Steinicke (GH: #2375)
- Updated designations of stars (GH: #2391)
- Updated licence statement for few sky cultures