Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. Stellarium is available for Linux/Unix, MacOSX and Windows. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Here are some key features of "Stellarium":
Sky
� Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos for the brightest ones.
� Planets and major satellites in real time (position computation now accurate enough for eclipse or transit simulation).
� Drawing of the 88 constellations with their names.
� Mythological figures of the 88 constellations.
� Textured displaying of more than 70 nebulas (Orion, M31 etc..).
� Photo-realistic Milky Way.
� Star twinkling.
� Shooting Stars.
Landscape & visualization
� Skinable landscape (ground, fog, mapping of fisheye pictures).
� Ultra fast realistic atmosphere rendering (Sunsets, sunrises etc...).
� Automatic eye adaptation to sky luminance using physiologic model.
� Grids in Equatorial and Azimuthal coordinates.
� Equator and ecliptic coordinates lines.
Navigation & rendering
� Smooth real time intuitive navigation.
� Powerfull zoom to see planet and nebula like in a telescope.
� Equatorial and altazimutal mount mode.
� Standard perspective and wide angle (fisheye) projections modes (e.g for planetarium dome).
� Time control (real time and accelered time modes).
� Graphical menu for simple utilisation.
� Clikable stars, planets and nebulas with informations.
� Windowed and fullscreen modes.
� Full dome (180�) projection mode for planetariums.
� Text user interface for planetariums.
Requirements:
� Linux/Unix, Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP or MacOSX.
� A 3D Card with a support for OpenGL. At least a Voodoo3 or a TNT2 is recommended for smooth animation.
� A dark room for realistic rendering : details like the Milky Way or star twinkling can't be seen in a bright room.
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Added:
· ecliptic grid (LP: #834307)
· world observatories to the locations list (LP: #891643)
· allow configuration of url for SIMBAD lookups (LP: #948528)
· opportunity to freely choose the object information to display (LP: #834325)
· Pluto texture (LP: #906766)
Fixed:
· No objects under horizon (LP: #952532)
· (MinGW-w64) CMake does not detect Win64 (LP: #951465)
· (MinGW-w64) Compilation errors (LP: #951405, #951742)
· Oculars FOV (LP: #971066, #962691)
· "Galactic Plane" string does not get translated when language is switched (LP: #976515)
· Use freedesktop specification for Unity quicklists (LP: #959893)
· Apparent diameter of planets with rings (LP: #960904)
· Crash [assert] when FOV is small and Quasars or Historical Supernovae plugins is enabled (LP: #961011)
· Angle Measure plug-in reads the wrong options from the configuration file (LP: #954205)
· Crash in debug mode on displaying constellation borders (LP: #951967)
· Star halo "dances" for small Solar System objects (LP: #805810)
· RTL-languages is not displayed correctly when using gravity labels (LP: #801668)
· Orbits with close perihelions are not displayed correctly (LP: #640455)
· Precision of angular diameter lower than intended (LP: #955635)
· Moons' orbit lines broken by parent planet movement with time (LP: #889712)
· Invalid user defined location cause Stellarium to crash (LP: #860220)
· Difficulty to select zoomed in planets and moons (LP: #854374)
· Altazimutal grid not overlapping equatorial grid when located on poles (LP: #775972)
· Global key bindings not global (LP: #687288)
· Screenshot write permission fail (Vista/7) (LP: #568086)
· Wrong planet phases as seen from more outer planets (LP: #803305)
· Zoom in/out command sticks (LP: #712112)
· Importing SSOs causes some strange effects (LP: #969211)
· Not updated values of dimensions of CCD while changes telescopes (LP: #998726)
· Gravity labels rendered incorrectly (LP: #998121)
· Keyboard shortcut for subtract one sidereal year don't works (LP: #997873)
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