
There is also a projection based on your sky dome’s spherical mirror. If you want to view the sky map in a realistic spherical shape, you can set the view into the fisheye mode. You can also modify the time control feature to view changes or rotations of different heavenly objects’ positions. First, it will enable you to zoom so profoundly you can observe even the tiniest element or star on the sky map. If you want to view the sky and star constellations, Stellarium allows manual and granular control of the interface. Besides, it shows a realistic visualization of the Milky Way and the sun activities of other neighboring planets and their respective satellites. Moreover, it provides high-quality photos of the nebulae from its Messier catalog. It supports over 20 various cultures in consideration of asterism and illustration of star constellations. If you’re still not convinced, you can go beyond and reveal its different 177 million stars in the catalog. Also, it allows you to observe more than 600,000 stars. It has an impressive vast catalog of over 80,000 deep-sky objects with another 1 million from its impressive extra catalog. Stellarium displays the map of the sky and star constellations. Stellarium: Major Features View sky and star constellations in high-definition GPU with 3D, GLSL 1.3, OpenGL ES 2.0, and OpenGL 3.0 support.Linux: snap, source, and 64 bit or AppImage.View the sky and star constellations in high-definition 3D.Download and make Stellarium yours today! Highlight Features

View the wonders of the sky and constellations with its beautiful 3D display. It is entirely free and open-source so that everyone can download and enjoy it. This version is not a final one yet nor without any bugs, but it is usable at least.Stellarium is the ultimate planetarium program for your computer. This is done now as a first version is available through the Java Web Start system ( to install before, which allows to start a Java application that can be downloaded from the Internet) on SourceForge or. This post was initially written in french, on February 16th, 2008 This required re-writing (then, later, extend with ufology features) the state-of-the-art planetarium software, known as Stellarium. Once the prototype done, I needed to produce the most realistic sky rendering as possible. As I explained in another post, the benefit of such a tool was also, to me, to allow simulating known phenomena hypothesis (astronomical, balloons, meteors, planes, birds…) in order to validate or exclude them, along with agreement of the witness. A few years ago, I started prototyping a visual testimony tool inspired by works of Roger Shepard, Richard Haines and motivated by Pierre Lagrange with the aim of improving UFO reporting.
