Stellarium 24.1.0
Renders realistic skies in real time on your screen
Category: | Lifestyle |
Price: | Free |
Popularity: | Medium |
Version String: | 24.1.0 |
Release Date: | 2024-03-25 |
Architecture: | Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM) |
Minimum OS: | macOS 11.0 |
Vendor Name: | stellarium |
Homepage: | stellarium.org |
Version History 24.1.0
You can find release notes for this version here: [github.com]
Description:
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.
features
sky
• default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
• extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars
• default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects
• extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• constellations for 20+ 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
• tails of comets
• iridium flares simulation
• eclipse simulation
• supernovae and novae simulation
• 3D sceneries
• 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...