features
in version 0.10.5
sky
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for twelve different cultures
- images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
- realistic Milky Way
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- the planets and their satellites
interface
- a powerful zoom
- time control
- multilingual interface
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
- all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
visualisation
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- eclipse simulation
- skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customisability
- plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescrope configuration and more
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
wiki
The wiki is the place where stellarium users maintain all the knowledge about the program, and where you can contribute as well.
news
18/06/2010
Switch to bazaar Version Control System
The source code of Stellarium is now managed by Bazaar instead of Subversion. This change should ease new developers to create and maintain specific changes in parallel to the main code trunk thanks to the powerful distributed nature of bzr.
See https://code.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk for accessing the new repository.
08/06/2010
Stellarium 0.10.5 available for Ubuntu 10.04
Stellarium 0.10.5 binary packages are now available for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx through a Launchpad PPA (Personal Package Archive).
Stellarium's Ubuntu Releases PPA can be found at Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~stellarium/+archive/stellarium-releases
To get the updated Stellarium packages, you can either:
a) use the Software Sources utility to add the "ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases" line to the list of software sources, and then use the Synaptic package manager or the Ubuntu Software Center to update Stellarium's packages.
b) open a terminal and run some commands:
To add the PPA to the list of repositories:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases
and then, to look for package updates:
sudo apt-get update
As the Launchpad PPAs are not as extensively mirrored as Ubuntu's main repositories, downloading the packages may be slow. If the download halts, cancel and restart the installation. In most cases, the download's progress will be saved and it will continue from the point it stopped.
collaborate
You can learn more about Stellarium, get support and help the project from these links:
bzr
The latest development snapshot of Stellarium is kept in Bazaar, a distributed revision control system. If you want to compile development versions of Stellarium, this is the place to get the source code.
irc
Real time chat about Stellarium can be had in the #stellarium IRC channel on the freenode IRC network. Use your favorite IRC client to connect to chat.freenode.net or try the web-based interface.
developers
Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Doc author/developer: Matthew Gates
OSX Developer: Nigel Kerr
OSX Developer: Diego Marcos
Developer: Bogdan Marinov
Developer: Timothy Reaves
Developer: Guillaume Chéreau
Tester: Barry Gerdes
and everyone else in the community.
supporters and friends
Stellarium is produced by the efforts of the developer team, with the help and support of the following people and organisations
