Stellarium (software)

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Stellarium
Original authorFabien Chéreau
DevelopersAlexander Wolf
Georg Zotti
Marcos Cardinot
Guillaume Chéreau
Bogdan Marinov
Timothy Reaves
Florian Schaukowitsch
Initial release2001
Stable release
25.1[1] / March 23, 2025
(12 months ago) (2025-03-23)
Repository
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Written inC++ (Qt)
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    Operating systemLinux, Windows, macOS
    PlatformPC, Mobile
    Size345 MB (Linux tarball)
    261 MB (Windows 32-bit installer)
    398 MB (Windows 64-bit installer)
    243 MB (macOS package)
    TypeEducational software
    LicenseGNU GPLv2[2]

    Stellarium is a free and open-source planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android and iOS. These have a limited functionality, lacking some features of the desktop version. All versions use OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time.[citation needed]

    Stellarium was featured on SourceForge in May 2006 as Project of the Month.[3]

    History

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    In 2006, Stellarium 0.7.1 won a gold award in the Education category of the Les Trophées du Libre free software competition.[4]

    A modified version of Stellarium has been used by the MeerKAT project as a virtual sky display showing where the antennae of the radio telescope are pointed.[5]

    In December 2011, Stellarium was added as one of the "featured applications" in the Ubuntu Software Center.[6]

    Planetarium dome projection

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    The fisheye and spherical mirror distortion features allow Stellarium to be projected onto domes. Spherical mirror distortion is used in projection systems that use a digital video projector and a first surface convex spherical mirror to project images onto a dome. Such systems are generally cheaper than traditional planetarium projectors and fish-eye lens projectors and for that reason are used in budget and home planetarium setups where projection quality is less important.[citation needed]

    Various companies which build and sell digital planetarium systems use Stellarium, such as e-Planetarium.[7][non-primary source needed]

    Digitalis Education Solutions, which helped develop Stellarium, created a fork called Nightshade which was specifically tailored to planetarium use.[8][9][non-primary source needed]

    VirGO

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    VirGO is a Stellarium plugin, a visual browser for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Science Archive Facility which allows astronomers to browse professional astronomical data. It is no longer supported or maintained; the last version was 1.4.5, dated January 15, 2010.[10][non-primary source needed]

    Stellarium Mobile

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    Stellarium Mobile is a fork of Stellarium, developed by some of the Stellarium team members. It currently targets mobile devices running Symbian, Maemo, Android, and iOS. Some of the mobile optimisations have been integrated into the mainline Stellarium product.[11][non-primary source needed][dead link]

    Screenshots

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    Legacy

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    Eleanor Catton, the New Zealand author who wrote the 2013 Booker Prize recipient novel The Luminaries, stated she used star charts from Stellarium and Sky & Telescope while writing the novel to help reconstruct the sky within the timeframe the novel is set in.[12]

    See also

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