Stellarium: Bring Heaven to your home.

[Dark Star]

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.

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Features:-

In version 0.8.2

• Over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue with info
• Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• Images of nebulae
• Realistic Milky Way
• Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
• The planets and their satellites

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Interface

• A powerful zoom
• Time control
• Multilingual interface
• Scripting to record and play your own shows
• Fisheye projection for planetarium domes
• Spheric mirror projection for your own dome
• Graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
• Telescope control

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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...

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Down Load Now:-

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  [*]Linux :- Click Here
  [*]Windows: Click Here
  [*]Mac :- Click Here
  [*]User Guide: - Click Here

 

[thexfactor]

Nice find ... thanx

 

[Dark Star]

^^My pleasure. Its a piece of gem really an awesome software so real and so serene just give this a try

 

[Renegade]

This seems nice for a change. Will download it once I have a faster connection.

 

[BIKeINSTEIN]

Wow- one of my fave passtimes- in real- when i was much much younger though.

Nice one DS- nice find.:thumb:

Will surely try this.

 

[zhopudey]

This is cool. Repped ya

Oops: You'll have to wait for that rep. Do you take an I.O.U.?

 

[Private Ryan]

Cool find man...thanks a lot.....hyeah: Rep Spreading problem..:no:

 

[dipen01]

What kinda net connection would one need to use this..??

 

[Dark Star]

What kinda net connection would one need to use this..??

U need not to be connected while using this software just download it and it will work for you as a normal software you use.. No connection needed after downloading :hap2:

 

[Shade]

Excellent, man. Thanks for the info.
repped.

 

[Private Ryan]

but is there an option to connect to their server..?tht way we wud probably be able to get more information if its not there in the software's database..:S

 

[Private Ryan]

Damn, one more thing, i can change the resolution but there is no option for changing refresh rate..correct me if i'm wrong...

 

[Quad Master]

Thanks for info on this excellent peice of software

 

[Dark Star]

Damn, one more thing, i can change the resolution but there is no option for changing refresh rate..correct me if i'm wrong...

Try editing the .ini file present in folder change the resolution hope it works :hap2:

 

[PriyoBan]

Hey dude nice find... although if you guys are looking for something browser based you may like this:

Neave Planetarium

 

[dipen01]

Oh...thanx a lot

 

[montylee]

well this software exists for ages now and is really cool.

Thanks to Dark Star for bringing it into limelight

 

[Mindex]

Great find

 

[Dark Star]

Hey dude nice find... although if you guys are looking for something browser based you may like this:

Neave Planetarium

Hmmm.. Looks better solution but I think it works using Internet connection. Thanks man for sharing :cool2: will try this after get a good connection

 

[PriyoBan]

^^ It preloads most of the stuff... so you won't have a problem with your speed or nething i suppose.