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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Stellarium is a free open-source program simulating a planetarium, available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Its features, among these important, are e.g. a default catalogue of over 600,000 stars (and an extra catalogue with more than 210 million stars), planets and their satellites, a powerful zoom, time control, multilingual interface, telescope control, various visualisation options, customisability ASO.
When you are a bit tired of entertainment industry programs (commonly knows as games ;-)), you can take a glance at Stellarium.
The official site: Stellarium.org
SourceForge site: Sourceforge.net
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Stellarium Windows
Full VersionWindows version of an open-source planetarium. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Stellarium Linux (source)
Full VersionLinux version of an open-source planetarium. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Stellarium Mac OS X
Full Version 2 commentsMac OS X version of an open-source planetarium. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
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As an amateur astronomer, this wonderful Stellarium program was very useful to me.
I remember this from like a year ago, such a awesome piece of software! Ever thought of incorperating this into google earth? Just a thought...
Well this is awesome.
Is it possible to view the sky from coordinates in Australia?
I live in the light polluted suburbs of Melbourne but I occasionally get to go into rural areas; I just think it would be cool if I went camping and I could be a smartass in front of my friends when I've already memorized star constellations.
F6 key to set up coordinates. :-)
have this one on my pc :) cool stuff.