features
sky
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for 15 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 feature
- 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
- supernovae simulation
- skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customisability
- plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
- ability to add new solar system objects from on-line resources…
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts…
news
- Stellarium 0.12.2dev4 is now available
- Stellarium 0.12.2dev3 is now available
- Stellarium 0.12.2dev2 is now available
- Stellarium 0.12.1 has been released!
- Stellarium 0.12.1 Release Candidate 1
system requirements
minimal
- Linux/Unix; Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8; 64-bit Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
- 3D graphics card with support for OpenGL 1.2
- 256 MiB RAM
- 120 MiB on disk
recommended
- Linux/Unix; Windows XP/Vista/7/8; 64-bit Mac OS X 10.7.0 or later
- 3D graphics card with support for OpenGL 2.1 or later
- 1 GiB RAM or more
- 1.5 GiB on disk
developers
Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Doc. author/developer: Matthew Gates
Developer: Bogdan Marinov
Developer: Alexander Wolf
Developer: Timothy Reaves
Developer: Guillaume Chéreau
Developer: Georg Zotti
OSX developer: Nigel Kerr
OSX developer: Diego Marcos
Continuous Integration: Hans Lambermont
Tester: Barry Gerdes
Tester: Khalid AlAjaji
and everyone else in the community.
get involved
You can learn more about Stellarium, get support and help the project via these links:
- summary
- forum
- mailing list
- wiki
- FAQ
- landscapes
- scripts
- plugins
- User's guides
- documentation for developers
- scripting
- get support
- report bugs, request new features
- development progress
- older releases
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
Engage in real time chats about Stellarium in the #stellarium IRC channel on the freenode IRC network. Use your favourite IRC client to connect to chat.freenode.net or try the web-based interface.
supporters and friends
Stellarium is produced by the efforts of the developer team, with the help and support of the following people and organisations.
