Stellarium

by Stellarium for Mac OS X

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Your own planetarium on OS X

New feature for installing landscapes from ZIP archives.New plugin: Solar System editor.New plugin: Time Zone manual override.Oculars plugin: customizable keyboard shortcuts.Satellites plugin: added new orbit prediction engine w/ orbits.Satellites plugin: can now update TLEs from a local file.Telescope control plugin: added manual equinox / epoch override.

Changes

  • New feature for installing landscapes from ZIP archives.New plugin: Solar System editor.New plugin: Time Zone manual override.Oculars plugin: customizable keyboard shortcuts.Satellites plugin: added new orbit prediction engine w/ orbits.Satellites plugin: can now update TLEs from a local file.Telescope control plugin: added manual equinox / epoch override.

Stellarium is free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. Stellarium is also used in planetariums.

Features:

Sky

  • Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and info
  • Planets and major satellites in real time
  • Asterisms of the 88 constellations with their names
  • Mythological figures of the 88 constellations
  • Images of more than 70 nebulas (Orion, M31 etc..).
  • Photo-realistic Milky Way
  • Star twinkling
  • Shooting Stars

Landscape & visualization

  • Skinnable landscape (ground, fog, mapping of fisheye pictures)
  • Ultra fast realistic atmosphere rendering (sunsets, sunrises etc…)
  • Automatic eye adaptation to sky luminance using physiologic model
  • Grids in equatorial and azimuthal coordinates
  • Equator and ecliptic coordinates lines

Navigation & rendering

  • Smooth real time intuitive navigation
  • Powerful zoom to see planets and nebulae like through a telescope
  • Equatorial and altazimuthal mount mode
  • Standard perspective and wide angle (fisheye) projection modes
  • Time control (real time and accelerated time modes)
  • Graphical menu for simple use
  • Clickable stars, planets and nebulas, with information
  • Windowed and fullscreen modes
  • Full dome (180°) projection mode for planetariums
  • Text user interface for planetariums