Stellarium 0.22.0

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Stellarium key features:

Realistic simulation of the sky, sunrise and sunset
Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
Downloadable additional catalogues for up to 210 million stars
Catalog data for all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects
Images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way
Artistic illustrations for all 88 modern constellations
More than a dozen different cultures with their constellations
Solar and lunar eclipse simulation
Photorealistic landscapes (more are available on the website)
Scripting support with ECMAScript (a few demo scripts are included)
Extendable with plug-ins: 8 plug-ins installed by default, including:
artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database)
ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular)
Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC)
telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible)

The major changes of this version:

AstroCalc: Eclipse Finder
AstroCalc: RTS (Rises, Transits, Settings)
Switch from Bortle scale to physical brightness values for light pollution.
Allow tweaks for the atmosphere brightness/color model and tone mapping
Several new calendars in the Calendars plugin
Seasonal polar caps on Mars
New and improved sky cultures
Larger textures allowed in Scenery3D
Improved OnlineQueries and Satellites plugin
Many fixes in core and plugins.
Technical preparations towards a major upgrade of the internal Qt framework.
There has also been a large number of bug fixes and closed feature requests and enhancements (see full list of changes). [full release notes]

Download: Stellarium 0.22 (64-bit) | 340.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Stellarium 0.22 (32-bit) | 332.0 MB
View: Stellarium Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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