Stellaruim provides planetarium on your desktop.
It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time:
- Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos for the brightest ones.
- Planets in real time, with a powerfull zoom mode to see them like in a telescope.
- Drawing of the 88 constellations with their names.
- Drawing of more than 40 messiers objects (Orion, M31 etc..).
- Photorealistic Milky Way.
- Ground, fog, and landscape.
- Star twinkling.
- Grids in Equatorial and Azimuthal coordinates.
- Time control (real time and accelered time modes).
- Graphical menu for simple utilisation.
- Clikable stars, planets and nebulas with informations.
- Ecliptic and celestrial equator lines.
- Smooth real time navigation.

• Sergey V Turchin

• stellarium