From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stellarium is a free software planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time. With Stellarium, it's possible to see what one cannot see with the naked eye, binoculars or a small telescope.
Stellarium is developed by the French programmer Fabien Chéreau, who launched the project in the summer of 2001. Other prominent developers include Robert Spearman, Johannes Gajdosik, Matthew Gates, Nigel Kerr and Johan Meuris, who is responsible for the artwork.
[edit] Features
Stellarium contains a wide variety of features.
[edit] Sky features
[edit] Interface
- a powerful zoom
- time control
- multilingual interface
- scripting to record and play your own shows
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own dome
- graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
[edit] Visualization
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- eclipse simulation
- skinnable landscapes
- spherical panorama projection
[edit] Customisability
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
- available in more than 40 languages since version 0.8.0
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
