
Stellarium also comes with plugin control, so you can add functions like artificial satellites, ocular simulation, and telescope configuration. It comes with a powerful zoom feature, time control, fish-eye projection for planetarium domes, extensive keyboard control and telescope control. Stellarium has a great looking interface that can be accessed by all levels of user.
Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset. Images of nebulae (full Messier catalog). Constellations for 20+ different cultures. Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations.
Default catalog of over 600,000 stars (extra catalogs with more than 210 million stars). The application shows a realistic sky in 3D the same as what you'd see with a telescope. Basically it's a planetarium for your computer. Don't have Windows? As I outline below, Stellarium has some built-in scope drivers, so you may be OK.Stellarium provides you with accurate data about the night sky, which can be used by professional and amateur astronomers alike. Is the Win version ( which requires Open GL graphics), since I wanted to use the PC-only ASCOM telescope drivers with it. Well as Windows, but what I downloaded and what I’ll be talking about here exclusively The program is available for Linux and OSX as Since I didn’t have any other ideas, and Stellarium is free, Iįigured I had nothing to lose, and downloaded
I wanted were now present, and that more than a few of the rough edges I hadn’t like had been Improved greatly since I’d last looked at it, that some of the missing features Stellarium was program I’d used occasionally over the years, and I’d heard it had been TheSky X, which is available for immediate download from their website, but I am cheap, and I was also leery of trying to learn to use X in I could have shelled out more than a few bucks to Bisque for
What would I do, then? What would I do? Unfortunately, TheSky and CdC were the onlyįull-featured planetariums currently on my hard drive.