Stellarium: Open Source Planetarium for your Computer

Stellarium is a free open source astronomy application for your computer. It enables you to look at stars from the comfort of your own home. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Stellarium

It shows you a realistic sky in 3D, it seems as if you are looking to the sky in naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope.The program comes in Windows, Mac, and linux flavors. In essence, this program has something for everyone. You can watch the planets, stars, and other deep space bodies rotate in time through the sky. You can watch sunrises and sunsets. Enjoy these other screenshots from Stellarium.

Stellarium Features

• Default invoice of over 600,000 stars.
• All stars from the Hipparcos catalogue.
• Extra catalogues with more than 210 a thousand thousand stars.
• Time control like forward, backward, return to present.
• Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations.
• Constellation art for the 88 Western constellations stemming from Greek mythology.
• Actual realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.
• Minimalistic menu for use with dome projections.
• Spheric reflector projection for your own low-cost dome.
• Spherical panorama projection.
• Actual realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.
• Clickable world cities map to set coordinates.
• Look around by mousedragging, or moving your mouse against the edges of the window.
• Script loading via text user interface.