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.
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- Sky feature
Over 600,000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue and the Tycho-2 Catalogue
Extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
Constellations from ten cultures
Images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
Realistic Milky Way
Realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
Planets of the solar system and their major moons
Ability to display stars and other celestial objects as seen from reference points other than the Earth (e.g. Saturn, Phobos, comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) or any other object defined in system.ini)
- Interface
Zoom
Time control
Multilingual interface
Scripting to record and playback shows
Fisheye projection for planetarium domes
Spheric mirror projection for personal domes
Graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
Telescope control
- Customisability
Deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts etc. can be added.
- Visualization
Equatorial and azimuthal grids
Star twinkling
Shooting stars
Eclipse simulation
Skinnable landscapes
Spherical panorama projection
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