Stellarium
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Stellarium
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Freeware
Planetarium on an open source computer. It displays the sky in 3D as it can be seen through binoculars or a telescope.
Enter your coordinates and explore the stars.The shooting star broke out near Jupiter. You can select a different intensity in the preview window. Great Orion Nebula. Press N to display the names of the nebulae. Constellation lines are also displayed, press C to show or hide them. Dance of the planets above the ESO headquarters, near Munich. The whole sky with constellations, their borders and the Milky Way.- standard catalog - more than 600,000 stars,
- additional directories - more than 177 million stars,
- standard catalog - more than 80,000 objects of deep space,
- additional catalog - more than a million objects of deep space,
- star clusters and images of constellations,
- constellations of more than 20 different cultures,
- images of nebulae (full Messier catalog),
- A realistic Milky Way,
- A very realistic atmosphere, sunsets and sunrises,
- planets and their satellites,
- powerful scaling, time tracking,
- multilingual interface,
- the fisheye projection for projecting an image onto the planetarium dome,
- spherical mirror projection for your personal low-budget dome,
- A new graphical interface and advanced control system with a keyboard,
- telescope control,
- display,
- Equatorial and azimuthal grids,
- flicker of stars,
- meteors,
- tails of comets,
- simulation of the outbreaks of iridiums,
- Simulation of eclipses,
- Simulation of supernovae and new ones,
- 3D landscapes,
- landscapes with skins support, now with a spherical panoramic projection,
- customization and expansion,
- a system of plug-ins for the addition of artificial satellites, eyepiece simulation, telescope control and much more,
- the ability to add new objects of the solar system from the Internet ...,
- adding your own cosmic objects, landscapes, images of constellations, scenarios ...