Stellarium

Stellarium

Freeware

Planetarium on an open source computer. It displays the sky in 3D as it can be seen through binoculars or a telescope.

Enter your coordinates and explore the stars.

The shooting star broke out near Jupiter. You can select a different intensity in the preview window. Great Orion Nebula. Press N to display the names of the nebulae. Constellation lines are also displayed, press C to show or hide them. Dance of the planets above the ESO headquarters, near Munich. The whole sky with constellations, their borders and the Milky Way.

1. standard catalog - more than 600,000 stars,
2. additional directories - more than 177 million stars,
3. standard catalog - more than 80,000 objects of deep space,
4. additional catalog - more than a million objects of deep space,
5. star clusters and images of constellations,
6. constellations of more than 20 different cultures,
7. images of nebulae (full Messier catalog),
8. A realistic Milky Way,
9. A very realistic atmosphere, sunsets and sunrises,
10. planets and their satellites,
11. powerful scaling, time tracking,
12. multilingual interface,
13. the fisheye projection for projecting an image onto the planetarium dome,
14. spherical mirror projection for your personal low-budget dome,
15. A new graphical interface and advanced control system with a keyboard,
16. telescope control,
17. display,
18. Equatorial and azimuthal grids,
19. flicker of stars,
20. meteors,
21. tails of comets,
22. simulation of the outbreaks of iridiums,
23. Simulation of eclipses,
24. Simulation of supernovae and new ones,
25. 3D landscapes,
26. landscapes with skins support, now with a spherical panoramic projection,
27. customization and expansion,
28. a system of plug-ins for the addition of artificial satellites, eyepiece simulation, telescope control and much more,
29. the ability to add new objects of the solar system from the Internet ...,
30. adding your own cosmic objects, landscapes, images of constellations, scenarios ...