Learn Stellarium
Introduction
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.
Educational application and relevance
Version
Stellarium Version - 0.12.4
Configuration
No need to configure Application - Education - Stellarium
Overview of Features
sky
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for 20+ 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
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
- all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
visualisation
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- eclipse simulation
- supernovae simulation
- skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customizability
- plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
- ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
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Development and community help
Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Graphic designer: Johan Meuris
Developer: Bogdan Marinov, Alexander Wolf, Timothy Reaves, Guillaume Chéreau, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot, Florian Schaukowitsch
Continuous Integration: Hans Lambermont
Tester: Khalid AlAjaji
and everyone else in the community.
Working with the application
Functionalities
- Please label images as Step 1
- Please add 500px
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File formats for creation
Not applicable
Saving the file
Not applicable
Export and publishing files
Not applicable
Advanced features
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Use
Installation
Method of installation | Steps |
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From Ubuntu software Centre | Steps |
From Terminal | Steps |
From the web | Steps |
Web based registration | Steps |
The application on mobiles and tablets
Skymap
Ideas for resource creation
References
http://stellarium.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)
How to use template
{{subst:Explore_an_application}} on the page you create for your tool. Page Name should be "Learn ToolName"