Stellarium 0.9.1 released
Articles / Planetarium like programs (News)
Posted by Admin on Jan 22, 2008 - 03:43 PM
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The Stellarium team announced the release of version 0.9.1. said to be primarily a bug fix and stabilization one. Apart from bug fixes, users can expect to see improved start-up times and a new sky culture (Tupi-Guarani) as well as some progress with translations and overall stability.
Stellarium is available for Windows, Linux, Unix and MacOSX. Features in version 0.9.1 include:
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...
Homepage: http://www.stellarium.org/
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