Adventures in Astrophotography, DeepSpace And A Astronomy Link List
Stellarium
29 August 2005, Russ @ 4:39 pm

Stellarium
Is another can’t live without.
What it does is
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real-time. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

Some features:

- Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos for the
brightest ones,
- Planets in real time, with a powerful zoom mode to see them like in a
telescope,
- Drawing of the 88 constellations with their names,
- Drawing of more than 40 messiers objects (Orion, M31 etc..),
- Photorealistic Milky Way,
- Ground, fog, and landscape,
- Clickable stars, planets and nebulas with informations,
- Windowed and fullscreen modes.