features
in version 0.10.2
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...
wiki
The wiki is the place where stellarium users maintain all the knowledge about the program, and where you can contribute as well.
news
10/03/2009
Stellarium: 0.10.2 released!
The Stellarium team is proud to announce the release of Stellarium version 0.10.2, hot on the heels of 0.10.1.
Version 0.10.2 is based on the recent release of QT 4.5, which should fix startup problems which some users experienced with version 0.10.1. This change should also solve some Mac rendering bugs and speed up the GUI elements of the program.
A new projection mode is now available, called "Hammer-Aitoff", which allows for very wide fields of view (up to 360 degrees). This release also includes many bug fixes and some general performance tweaks. (0 comments)
06/02/2009
Stellarium: 0.10.1 released!
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.
The Stellarium team is proud to announce the release of Stellarium version 0.10.1.
This is the first stable version featuring the new Graphical User Interface. It contains all features introduced in 0.10.0 beta (with much less bugs!) as well as: a new script engine (in testing), new translations in Albanian and Bosnian, an improved grid rendering, the possibility to download extra star catalogs in 1 click, and various performance improvements. (9 comments)
21/01/2009
Translations for upcoming Stellarium v0.10.1
Stellarium 0.10.1 will be released in the coming days: it is the best time to update and finalize translation of the program in your language. Have a look in https://translations.launchpad.net/stellarium/0.10 to see if the translation is complete for your language!
If you want to be more involved, you should also join the stellarium-translation team: https://launchpad.net/~stellarium-translation and subscribe to the matching mailing list to be kept up to date. (0 comments)
01/01/2009
Happy New Year
I'd like to wish all Stellarium users a Happy New Year on behalf of the Stellarium developers. Thanks to everyone who supported the project in 2008 and here's to 2009 - lets make Stellarium better than ever.
Clear Skies
Matthew (1 comments)
Sourceforge
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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
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