A free open source desktop planetarium for your computer

Stellarium (64-bit)

Stellarium (64-bit)

  -  391.53 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    Stellarium 24.3 (64-bit) LATEST

  • Review by

    Marian Marinescu

  • Operating System

    Windows 10 (64-bit) / Windows 11

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Fabien Chereau / External Link

  • Filename

    stellarium-24.3-qt6-win64.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    ffc5d67216eef800bc865ab40502c1b7

Stellarium 64-bit 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. Features of Stellarium:

Sky
  • Default catalog of over 600,000 stars
  • Extra catalogs with more than 210 million stars
  • Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
  • Constellations for twelve different cultures
  • Images of nebulae (full Messier catalog)
  • Realistic Milky Way
  • Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise, and sunset
  • The planets and their satellites
Interface
  • A powerful zoom
  • Time control
  • Multilingual interface
  • The fisheye projection for planetarium domes
  • Spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
  • All new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
  • Telescope control
Visualization
  • Equatorial and azimuthal grids
  • Star twinkling
  • Shooting stars
  • Eclipse simulation
  • Supernovae simulation
  • Skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
Customizability
  • Plugin system adding artificial 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...
Also Available: Stellarium (32-bit), Stellarium for Mac and Stellarium Portable

  • Stellarium 24.3 (64-bit) Screenshots

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    Stellarium 24.3 (64-bit) Screenshot 1
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What's new in this version:

- Performance improvements for computation of Solar system bodies positions
- Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
- Updates in sky cultures
- Updates in GUI