Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Support: FAQ, Mailing List, Forum, GitHub, Twitterĭeveloper: Fabien Chereau, Rob Spearman, Johannes Gajdosik, Johan Meuris, Matthew Gates, Nigel Kerr Add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts….Ability to add new solar system objects from online resources….Plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more.

Skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection.Graphical interface and extensive keyboard control.Spheric mirror projection for your own dome.Fisheye projection for planetarium domes.Scripting to record and play your own shows.Realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.Images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue).Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations.Default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects.Extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars.Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue and the Tycho-2 Catalogue.Some amateur astronomy groups use it to create sky maps for describing regions of the sky in articles for newsletters and magazines.

Because of the high quality of the graphics that Stellarium produces, it is used in some real planetarium projector products.

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