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| | Application - Education - Stellarium | | Application - Education - Stellarium |
| | ==Overview of Features== | | ==Overview of Features== |
| − | Stellarium also provides asterisms and illustrations of constellations from ten cultures, images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue) and several realistic representations. The Milky Way, atmosphere, sunrise, planets of the solar system and their major moons are all represented in the application. Users can also display stars and other celestial objects as seen from reference points other than the Earth (e.g. Saturn, Phobos, comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) or any other object defined in the ssystem.ini file) <br>
| + | '''sky''' |
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| − | Stellarium's multi-lingual interface features zoom, time control, in-built scripting to record and playback shows, fisheye projection for planetarium domes, spheric mirror projection for personal domes, telescope control, equatorial and azimuthal grids, twinkling and shooting stars, simulated eclipses, landscapes and other deep sky objects.
| + | * default catalogue of over 600,000 stars |
| − | | + | * extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars |
| − | sky
| + | * asterisms and illustrations of the constellations |
| − | | + | * constellations for 20+ different cultures |
| − | default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
| + | * images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue) |
| − | extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
| + | * realistic Milky Way |
| − | asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
| + | * very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset |
| − | constellations for 20+ different cultures
| + | * the planets and their satellites |
| − | images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
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| − | realistic Milky Way
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| − | very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
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| − | the planets and their satellites
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| | '''interface''' | | '''interface''' |
