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Stellarium 1.1.1 – Free Planetarium

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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your PC. Representation renders 3D photographs sensible skies continuously with OpenGL. It shows a sensible sky in 3D. Very much like what you see with the unaided eye, optics, or a telescope.

Stellarium shows stars, heavenly bodies, planets, clouds, and other things like ground, scene, climate, and so on There is a capacity to add new planetary group objects from online assets.

You can add your own profound sky objects, scenes, group of stars pictures, and scripts. The module framework adds artificial satellites, visual reproduction, and telescope setup and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

Stellarium is accessible for Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS, and Android. It is being utilized in planetarium projectors. Just set your directions and head.

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
  • the fisheye projection for planetarium domes
  • spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
  • the 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 artificial 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…
  • A new, much better skylight model (Not for MacOS and OpenGL ES2 systems, sorry.)
  • Many details around eclipses
  • Updated Observation List features
  • New features in the AstroCalc tool
  • HiDPI improvements
  • Better dithering
  • Able to use Windows location service (Windows)
  • New sculpture: Samoan
  • Updated several sculptures
  • Updates in Angle Measure, Satellites, Oculars, Remote Control, Pulsars plugins
  • Many more bug fixes.

Homepage – https://www.stellarium.org

System Requirements:

minimal

  • Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
  • The 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.3
  • 512 MiB RAM
  • 250 MiB on disk
  • keyboard

recommended

  • Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
  • The 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above
  • 1 GiB RAM or more
  • 1.5 GiB on disk
  • keyboard

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