features
in version 0.9.1
sky
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for ten 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
- scripting to record and play your own shows
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own dome
- graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
visualisation
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- eclipse simulation
- skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customisability
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
wiki
The wiki is the place where stellarium users maintain all the knowledge about the program, and where you can contribute as well.
news
26/06/2008
More features arrive in development version
Two new rendering features - luminance adaptation and dynamic labeling - have been implemented in the development code. These features come in addition to an assortment of smaller improvements.
Details, and a link to a win32 package can be found here: http://porpoisehead.net/41 (0 comments)
06/06/2008
A sneak peak at Stellarium 0.10.0 (development version)
In recent weeks, Stellarium development has picked up a fair bit. Follow the link for an article describing some of the new features, and to see some screenshots.
http://tinyurl.com/5ua84b (2 comments)
Sourceforge
Sourceforge is the central website where we collaborate on Stellarium, and where you can be heard too!
svn
The latest development snapshot of Stellarium is kept in Subversion, a revision control system. If you want to compile development versions of Stellarium, this is the place to get the source code.
developers
Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Developer: Rob Spearman
Graphic/other designer: Johan Meuris
Doc author/developer: Matthew Gates
Developer: Johannes Gajdosik
OSX Developer: Nigel Kerr
Developer: Andras Mohari
and everyone else in the community.
links
A modified version of Stellarium is used in portable planetarium projectors sold by co-developer
Digitalis Education Solutions.
The Stellarium software project is not related to stellarium.com, who offer custom built physical star map displays for use in museums.
