Stellarium: Free Download and Features

Get support, report bugs, and request new features by visiting the Stellarium website. The project has received contributions from numerous individuals and organizations, including Marla Pinaire, Satish Mallesh, Vlad Magdalin, Philippe Renoux, Fito Martin, Laurence Holt, Astronomie-Werkstatt 'Sterne ohne Grenzen', John Bellora, Jeff Moe (Spacecruft), BairesDev, Vernon Hermsen, Triplebyte, and Hoffmann.

System Requirements

To run Stellarium, you'll need:

* A moderately dark environment (deep shadow or indoors)

* 3D graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.3 and above

* Linux/Unix, Windows 10 and above, or macOS 11.0 and above

* Mouse, Touchpad, or similar pointing device

Features

Stellarium offers a range of features, including:

* Ability to add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, and scripts

* Ability to add new solar system objects from online resources

* Plugin system that adds artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope control, and more

* Skinnable landscapes with spheric panorama projection

* HTTP interface for web-based control and remote control API

* Graphical interface and extensive keyboard control

* Spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome

* Fisheye projection for planetarium domes

* Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise, and sunset

* Images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)

* Constellations for 40+ different cultures

* Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations

* Extra catalogue with over 1 million deep-sky objects

* Default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects

* Extra catalogues with over 177 million stars

* Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars

Community Contributions

Zotti has given several talks and presentations about Stellarium, including:

* A talk on creating 3D sceneries at the TAG2016 Skyscapes session in December 2016

* An invited talk at the IAU Symposium 367 in December 2020

* A presentation for the China-VO (Virtual Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) in February 2021

* A presentation about Stellarium - key changes in the last 5 years at the Siberian Astronomical Forum SibAstro 2021 in September 2021

* A presentation about Stellarium 1.0 at the Siberian Astronomical Forum SibAstro 2022 in September 2022

* A presentation on Virtual Archaeoastronomy with Stellarium for the Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest (SCAAS) in February 2023

Wolf has also given several presentations about Stellarium, including:

* A presentation about key changes in the last 5 years at the Siberian Astronomical Forum SibAstro 2021 in September 2021

* A presentation about Stellarium 1.0 at the Siberian Astronomical Forum SibAstro 2022 in September 2022

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