Stellarium 0.12.4

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.

Stellarium key features:

• Realistic simulation of the sky, sunrise and sunset


• Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars


• Downloadable additional catalogues for up to 210 million stars


• Catalog data for all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects


• Images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way


• Artistic illustrations for all 88 modern constellations


• More than a dozen different cultures with their constellations


• Solar and lunar eclipse simulation


• Photorealistic landscapes (more are available on the website)


• Scripting support with ECMAScript (a few demo scripts are included)


• Extendable with plug-ins: 8 plug-ins installed by default, including:


• artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database)


• ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular)


• Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC)


• telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible)

Download: Stellarium 0.12.4 | 75.7 MB (Open Source)

Download: Stellarium 64-bit | 77.9 MB

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