Stellarium has multiple sky cultures - see the constellations from the traditions of Polynesian, Inuit, Navajo, Korean, Lakota, Egyptian and Chinese astronomers, as well as the traditional Western constellations. Stellarium comes with a star catalogue of about 600 thousand stars and it is possible to download extra catalogues with up to 210 million stars.
It displays stars, constellations, planets and nebulae, and has many other features including multiple panoramic landscapes, fog, light pollution simulation and a built-in scripting engine. Night mode can be found in the menus as an 'eye' icon.Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. To find out details on any object, just click on it with the mouse cursor.
Don't forget to select this location as your default. Either the city can be set up via the right-hand menu or the actual latitude, longitude and altitude can be entered manually (you can get this information from Google Earth). This can be done by hitting F6 or by using the mouse move the mouse cursor to the bottom left-hand corner of the program screen so that the menus are displayed as shown in the screenshot above and selecting the double star icon. Alternatively the program can be installed via System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager and selecting stellarium and stellarium-data packages to be installed, Just click on the white box and select 'Mark for installation' and then click on the Apply menu option.įirst set up the current location. The program normally runs in real time, so makes it easy to work out which stars and planets are currently seen when looking at the sky.Įasiest way to install is via the Main menu - Software Centre. An open source planetarium for your computer, just what can be seen by viewing the nights' sky with the naked eye, binoculars or telescope.
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