Stellarium (computer program)

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Stellarium
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Stellarium 0.12.0 running on Ubuntu Linux
Original author(s) Fabien Chéreau
Developer(s) Alexander Wolf
Georg Zotti
Marcos Cardinot
Guillaume Chéreau
Bogdan Marinov
Timothy Reaves
Ferdinand Majerech
Jörg Müller
Initial release 2001
Stable release 0.14.3 / 20 March 2016; 8 years ago (2016-03-20)
Written in C++ (Qt)
Operating system BSD, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Platform PC
Size 112 MB (Linux tarball)
128 MB (Windows installer)
153 MB (Mac OS X package)
Type Educational software
License GNU GPL
Website www.stellarium.org

Stellarium is a free software planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It uses OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time.

Stellarium was created by the French programmer Fabien Chéreau, who launched the project in the summer of 2001. Currently, Stellarium is being maintained and developed by Alexander Wolf, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot, Guillaume Chéreau, Bogdan Marinov, Timothy Reaves, Ferdinand Majerech and Jörg Müller. There are a number of other developers who contributed with the development of Stellarium, that includes Robert Spearman, Johannes Gajdosik, Matthew Gates, Nigel Kerr, and Johan Meuris, who is responsible for the artwork.[citation needed]

Stellarium was featured on SourceForge in May 2006 as Project of the Month.[1]

History

In 2006, Stellarium 0.7.1 won a gold award in the Education category of the Les Trophées du Libre free software competition.[2]

A modified version of Stellarium has been used by the MeerKAT project as a virtual sky display showing where the antennae of the radiotelescope are pointed.[3]

In December 2011, Stellarium was added as one of the "featured applications" in the Ubuntu Software Center.[4]

Features

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  • Sky feature
  • Interface
    • Zoom
    • Time control
    • Multilingual interface
    • Scripting to record and playback shows
    • Fisheye projection for planetarium domes
    • Spheric mirror projection for personal domes
    • Graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
    • Telescope control
  • Visualization
    • Equatorial and azimuthal grids
    • Star twinkling
    • Shooting stars
    • Eclipse simulation
    • Skinnable landscapes
    • Spherical panorama projection
  • Customisability
    • Deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts etc. can be added.

Planetarium dome projection

The fisheye and spherical mirror distortion features allow Stellarium to be projected onto domes. Spherical mirror distortion is used in projection systems that utilize a digital video projector and a first surface convex spherical mirror to project images onto a dome. Such systems are generally cheaper than traditional planetarium projectors and fish-eye lens projectors and for that reason are used in budget and home planetarium setups where projection quality is less important. Several companies that build and sell digital planetarium systems use Stellarium, such as e-Planetarium.[5] Digitalis Education Solutions, which helped develop Stellarium, created and now uses a fork called Nightshade[6][7] which is specifically tailored to planetarium use.

VirGO

VirGO is a Stellarium plugin, a visual browser for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Science Archive Facility that allows astronomers to browse professional astronomical data. It is no longer supported or maintained; the last version is 1.4.5, dated 15 January 2010.[8]

Stellarium Mobile

Stellarium Mobile[9] is a fork of Stellarium, developed by some of the Stellarium team members. It is targeting mobile devices running Symbian, Maemo, Android and iOS. Some of the mobile optimisations have been integrated to the mainline Stellarium.

Screenshots

  • Stellarium 001.jpg

    Constellation art in version 0.6.2

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    Stellarium for Java (a Java fork), version 0.8.2

  • Stellarium 002.jpg

    Version 0.8.0, interface in German

  • Stellarium090.jpg

    Version 0.9.0, interface in Greek

  • Stellarium 0.10.1 - Constellation art - English.png

    Constellation art in version 0.10.1

See also

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References

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