Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for
your computer. 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.
Features :
sky
over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos
catalogue with info
asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
images of nebulae
realistic Milky Way
very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and
sunset
the planets and their satellites
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
visualisation
equatorial and azimuthal grids
star twinkling
shooting stars
eclipse simulation
skinnable landscapes, now with spheric
panorama projection
customisability
add your own deep sky objects, landscapes,
constellation images, scripts...›
