Hi people,
Not sure if this was posted before, but it's good to let everyone know again (especially the newbies) that there is a nice and cool planetarium software called Stellarium. It is immediately available in multiple OS platforms, from Win, Linux and Mac OSX. I have tried running it on both Win and Mac successfully. The graphic rendering is quite cool and smooth.Stellarium is also used in planetarium projectors and is open source.
It has all the following features (and more): realistic milky way rendering, atmospheric profile, sunrise, sunset, images of nebulae, asterisms and illustrations of constellations, planets, over 120,000 stars from Hipparcos catalogue, and more!
Has a powerful zoom, time control, multilingual interface, scripting to record and play your own shows, spheric mirror projection for your own dome even!, graphical interface and extensive keyboard control, telescope control,etc.
You may add your own deep sky objects as well, landscapes, constellation images, scripts, etc.
Best of all, it is FREE.
You may download the software here: www.stellarium.org
Multi-OS Free Planetarium Software
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you need to upload the file to one of the many file sharing websites.
I googled and found this one :
http://www.4shared.com/file_sharing.jsp
I have not used them before so do take precaution with these sites.
Once uploaded you can provide a link to download the file.
cheers
I googled and found this one :
http://www.4shared.com/file_sharing.jsp
I have not used them before so do take precaution with these sites.
Once uploaded you can provide a link to download the file.
cheers
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Stellarium even has a night mode where everything is in red for night viewing. Superb!
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Re: Multi-OS Free Planetarium Software
Here's the updated Link (after 5 years
)for use with Stellarium 0.11.3
http://sdrv.ms/N6gi1K
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Landscapes
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http://sdrv.ms/N6gi1K
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Landscapes
How to install landscapes.
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.
1)Open the "Sky and viewing options" window by clicking on the appropriate button in the left button bar (or press the F4 key).
2)The "Add/remove landscapes" button is at the bottom of the "Landscape" tab.
3)When you press it, the "Add/remove landscapes" window will appear. It allows you to install .zip files containing landscapes. It also lists the user-installed landscapes and allows you to remove them.
Last edited by Ekezial on Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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