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Open Source Stellarium

Stellarium is available for Linux, Mac OSx and Windows:



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

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...

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