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 :
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| 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
