Stellarium 23.3 / 1.2 – Free Planetarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. Visualization renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It shows a realistic sky in 3D. Just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Stellarium displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc. There is an ability to add new solar system objects from online resources.
You can add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts. The plugin system adds artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more.
Stellarium is available for Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS and Android. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Stellarium Features:
sky
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars
- default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects
- extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for 20+ 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
- tails of comets
- iridium flares simulation
- eclipse simulation
- supernovae and novae simulation
- 3D sceneries
- 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…
Changes in Stellarium 23.3:
- New plugin: Missing Stars
- Allow semitransparent landscapes
- Added discovery circumstances for Solar system bodies
- Improve orbit drawing for minor bodies
- Show named impact features as ellipses
- Major changes in Navigational Stars plugin
- Observing List fixes
- Unambiguous comet names
Changes in Stellarium 23.2:
- vectorize marker of deep-sky objects
- updated support locations
- discovery circumstances for solar system objects
Changes in Stellarium 23.1:
- Much improved “Solar System observer” and other “Planet observers”.
- Solar dates along the ecliptic
- Fixed issues with Observation Lists, and removed need for the extra edit dialog.
- Updated shader code for smoother projection
- Allow texture decimation on the fly for very weak systems like Raspberry Pi 3.
- Solar limb darkening
- Proper shadow edge for satellites
Changes in Stellarium 1.2:
- New projection: Equirectangular (fills the screen)
- Improved rendering of Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and landscapes
- Improved rendering of the Moon
- Improved HiDPI behaviour
- Use Noto as default font
- Added Modern (IAU), Tikuna and Seri sky cultures
- Added Chinese and Bahai calendars (Calendars plugin)
Homepage – https://www.stellarium.org
System Requirements:
minimal
- Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; macOS 10.15 and above
- 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.3 or OpenGL ES 2.0
- 512 MiB RAM
- 600 MiB on disk
- Keyboard
- Mouse, Touchpad or similar pointing device
recommended
- 64-bit operating system
- Linux/Unix; Windows 10 and above; macOS 11.0 and above
- 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above
- 1 GiB RAM or more
- 1.5 GiB on disk
- Keyboard
- Mouse, Touchpad or similar pointing device
- Moderately dark environment (deep shadow or indoors)
Size: 379 MB
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