Stellarium is a free and open source, multi-platform desktop planetarium, renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL
Review
Sky:
- Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars;
- Extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars;
- Default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects;
- Extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects;
- Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations;
- Constellations for 20+ 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;
- Spherical 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;
- Tails of comets; Iridium flares simulation;
- Eclipse simulation;
- Supernovae and novae simulation;
- 3D sceneries;
- Skinnable landscapes with spherical panorama projection.
Customizability:
- Plugin system adding artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope control and more;
- Ability to add new solar system objects from online resources;
- Add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts.
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Installation
The software Stellarium is available for installation on Linux, Windows and macOS, as well as: Web version.
| Installation method | OS |
|---|---|
| PPA | Ubuntu* 16.04/18.04/19.04/20.04, Linux Mint 18/19, Debian |
| Deb | Ubuntu* 16.04/18.04/19.04/20.04, Linux Mint 18/19, Debian |
| RPM | openSUSE, Rosa Linux, Mageia, ALT Linux, Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and others |
| Snap | Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| Flatpak | Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| AppImage | Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint and others |
| EXE | Windows |
| .App | macOS |
*Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Lubuntu (LXDE)
Install Software via PPA repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install stellarium
Install Software via Snap package
sudo snap install stellarium-daily
Install Software via Flatpak package
flatpak install flathub org.stellarium.Stellarium
Web version software Stellarium: stellarium-web.org
Software Information
| Language Interface: | English, Russian, Deutsch, Spanish, French and others |
| Description version: | 0.21.1 |
| Developer: | Stellarium Team |
| Programming language: | C++, C, GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) |
| License: | GPL v2 |
| Software website: | stellarium.org/en |