features
in version 0.10.3
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
- plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescrope configuration and more
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
wiki
The wiki is the place where stellarium users maintain all the knowledge about the program, and where you can contribute as well.
news
05/02/2010
Stellarium featured on FLOSS Weekly show
Episode 107 of FLOSS weekly - the TWiT Network's show about Free/Libre and Open Source Software consisted of an extended interview with Matthew Gates about Stellarium.
An audio recording of the show can be downloaded here.
29/01/2010
Stellarium 0.10.3 Released
The Stellarium team are delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.10.3.
This release brings some exciting new features. Stellarium now ships with plug-ins for predicting the positions of artificial satellites in Earth orbit, improved telescope control features, telescope eyepiece simulation (ocular) and more. Plug-ins can be enabled using the new plug-ins tab in the configuration dialog.
We also have a new sky culture - Aztec, updated translations and an in-program script editor.
Under the hood, the structure of the program has continued to evolve to make it easier to code new features, improve performance and maintainability.
Enjoy!
13/01/2010
Haiti Earthquake Appeal
Yesterday one of the poorest nations on the planet, Haiti, suffered a severe earthquake. What little infrastructure existed there before is now badly damaged. There are many casualties, and a huge need to help to prevent further tradgedy in the aftermath of this disaster.
Please consider making a donation to MSF or Oxfam to help with the relief effort. Both of these organizations have pre-existing operations in Haiti and as such and in a good position to help.
05/08/2009
Stellarium scripts competition
The LSS-Planetarium Open Project is organizing a competition of Stellarium scripts "the stratoscript compendium ring 2009.
Deadline for registration and delivery of the Stellarium script : October, the 18th 2009. Contest details can be found there: http://lss-planetarium.ovh.org/index.php?lang=en&page=compendium2009
The Lhoumeau Sky-System Open Project is a concept of planetarium at low cost for small and medium planetariums using Stellarium, a videoprojector and a supplementary optical system. For more information see: http://lss-planetarium.ovh.org/index.php?lang=en&page=home (0 comments)
Sourceforge
Sourceforge is the central website where we collaborate on Stellarium, and where you can be heard too!
svn
The latest development snapshot of Stellarium is kept in Subversion, a revision control system. If you want to compile development versions of Stellarium, this is the place to get the source code.
developers
Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Doc author/developer: Matthew Gates
Graphic/other designer: Johan Meuris
Developer: Johannes Gajdosik
OSX Developer: Nigel Kerr
Developer: Rob Spearman
and everyone else in the community.
supporters and friends
Stellarium is produced by the efforts of the developer team, with the help and support of the following people and organisations
