Planetarium For Your Computer

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. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go. sky * default catalogue of over 600,000 stars * extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars * asterisms and illustrations of the constellations * constellations for twelve 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 * eclipse simulation * skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection customisability * add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...