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Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets and nebulae, and has many other features including multiple panoramic landscapes, fog, light pollution simulation and a built-in scripting engine.
Stellarium comes with a star catalogue of about 600 thousand stars and it is possible to download extra catalogues with up to 210 million stars.
Stellarium has multiple sky cultures - see the constellations from the traditions of Polynesian, Inuit, Navajo, Korean, Lakota, Egyptian and Chinese astronomers, as well as the traditional Western constellations.
It is also possible to visit other planets in the solar system - see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan.
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More features arrive in development version
Two new rendering features - luminance adaptation and dynamic labeling - have been implemented in the development code. These features come in addition to an assortment of smaller improvements.
Details, and a link to a win32 package can be found here: (0 comments)
A sneak peak at Stellarium 0.10.0 (development version)
In recent weeks, Stellarium development has picked up a fair bit. Follow the link for an article describing some of the new features, and to see some screenshots.
http://tinyurl.com/5ua84b (0 comments)
Stellarium 0.9.1 released!
The Stellarium team is proud to announce the release of version 0.9.1. This is primarily a bug fix and stabilization release. Apart from bug fixes, users can expect to see improved start-up times and a new sky culture (Tupi-Guarani) as well as some progress with translations and overall stability. (0 comments)
VirGO module presented at Explor'espace 2007
Fabien, our project leader, is presenting the work he has done on the VirGO module for Stellarium at Explor'espace 2007, an event by the Association d'Astronomie Française (AFA). (0 comments)
New text ready for translation
The updated translatable program text is now available for volunteers to translate through Launchpad/Rosetta.
http://tinyurl.com/34fudw (1 comments)
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| Codebase | 746,441 |
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