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
- 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
customizability
- plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
- ability to add new solar system objects from online 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 greater
- 3D graphics card which supports 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 greater
- 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 2.1 or greater
- 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.
collaborate
You can learn more about Stellarium, get support and help the project from these links:
- خلاصه
- forum
- mailing list
- wiki
- سزپ
- landscapes
- scripts
- افزونهها
- user's guides
- developers documentation
- 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
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.
supporters and friends
Stellarium is produced by the efforts of the developer team, with the help and support of the following people and organisations.
