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Stellarium Realistic Sky 3D

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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
in version 0.11.0

sky

  • default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
  • extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
  • asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
  • constellations for twelve 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
  • eclipse simulation
  • 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...
Screen Shot :
Stellarium Screen

Download Stellarium
Windows OS - http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-win32/0.11.0/stellarium-0.11.0-win32.exe/download
Mac OS 10.6 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-MacOSX/0.11.0/Stellarium-0.11.0-Intel-10.6.dmg/download
Linux Source - http://downloads.sourceforge.net/stellarium/stellarium-0.11.0.tar.gz

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