Moderately dark environment (deep shadow or indoors)ĭevelopers: Alexander V.

3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above.

Linux/Unix Windows 10 and above macOS 11.0 and above.

Mouse, Touchpad or similar pointing device.

3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.3 or OpenGL ES 2.0.

Linux/Unix Windows 7 and above macOS 10.15 and above.

D/L/Nakota and Ojibwe skycultures withdrawn.

Zotti gave a presentation about Virtual Archaeoastronomy with Stellarium (YouTube) for the Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest (SCAAS) on February 25th, 2023 Wolf gave a presentation about Stellarium 1.0 (YouTube) at the Siberian Astronomical Forum SibAstro 2022 on September 25th, 2022 Wolf gave a presentation about Stellarium - key changes in the last 5 years (YouTube) at the Siberian Astronomical Forum SibAstro 2021 on September 25th, 2021 Zotti gave a presentation about Stellarium (YouTube) for the China-VO (Virtual Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) on February 1st, 2021 Zotti gave an invited talk (YouTube) at the IAU Symposium 367 on December 9th, 2020 Zotti gave a talk about creating 3D sceneries (YouTube) at the TAG2016 Skyscapes session on December 20th, 2016

add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts.

ability to add new solar system objects from online resources.

plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope control and more.

skinnable landscapes with spheric panorama projection.

HTTP interface (web-based control, remote control API).

graphical interface and extensive keyboard control.

spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome.

fisheye projection for planetarium domes.

very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue).constellations for 40+ different cultures.asterisms and illustrations of the constellations.extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects.

default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects.extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars.default catalogue of over 600,000 stars.

Open source planetarium software