Stellarium 0.12.1

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Date updated

April 22, 2013

Developer

Stellarium | (more products)

All time downloads

1,957

License

Free

Platform

Windows

Size

56.60 MB

Description of Stellarium 0.12.1

Planetarium for your computer

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.

Key features

Basic controls :
• Look around by mouse dragging, or moving your mouse against the edges of the window
• Time control: forward, backward, return to present
• Zoom
• Tabbed configuration windows
• Text user interface: minimalistic menu for use with dome projections
• Clickable world cities map to set coordinates
• Save your default location

Observation :
• All stars from the Hipparcos catalogue
• The planets of our solar system, and their natural satellites
• All Messier objects
• All NGC objects
• Planet orbits
• Cardinal points
• Azimuthal grid
• Equatorial grid
• Ecliptica
• Equator line
• Meridian line
• Moon scaling
• Object trails
• Asterisms and names of the constellations
• Constellation boundaries
• Compensation for light travel time
• Equatorial/azimuthal mount
• FOV
• Disc viewport
• Observation from another planet, and as solar system observator

Landscapes :
• Fisheye projection
• "old_style" projection, i.e. a ground texture and a number of side textures
• Spherical panorama projection

Viewing :
• Constellation art for the 88 Western constellations stemming from Greek mythology, and 11 for the Inuit sky culture
• Realistic atmosphere
• Fog near the earth's surface
• Star twinkling
• Meteor showers
• Full screen or windowed mode
• Perspective projection
• Fisheye projection
• Stereographic projection
• Spherical mirror projection
• True Type font rendering
• Frames per second display
• Frame rate limiter
• Gravity labels for use in a dome
• Light pollution simulation loosely callibrated to the Bortle Dark Sky Scale
• Eye adaptation simulation

Localization :
• Sky culture: Western, Chinese, ancient Egyptian, Polynesian
• Sky localization
• Application localization

Scripting :
• Script input window
• Script loading via text user interface

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What is new in version 0.12.1

Added:
• Use different formulae for DeltaT calculations
• Show/hide starts at magnitude > X featur
• Added translations for Inno Setup installer
• Added Caldwell catalog
• New skyculture: Tongan
• New feature for Oculars plugin: support Barlow/Shapley lenses
• Control brightness of the milky way
• Satellites plugin: New Galileo satellites
• Control brightness of the landscapes at startup

Changed:
• Repacked default star catalogs
• Repacked locations catalog
• Refactored GUI
• Update textures for DSO
• Improved accuracy for NEO

Fixed:
• Sidereal day & sunrise/sunset
• Wrong solar day
• Pluto and Charon are not tidally locked in Stellarium
• Search problem in different language
• Bortle light pollution scale setting not working
• The preference of "Render Solar Shadow" cannot be saved
• Background color of the night sky
• Time is slightly off (from system time)
• Dynamic plugins don't load on window
• Satellite event times differ
• Yellow/Black Checkered Flag while Object Picture is Loading
• Planet display bug
• Star on meridian has wrong hour angle
• Location window spin box up/down behavior