User's Guide

Features

in version 0.8.0

sky

• over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue with info
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• images of nebulae
• realistic Milky Way
• very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
• the planets and their satellites

interface

• a powerful zoom
• time control
• multilingual interface
• scripting to record and play your own shows
• fisheye projection for planetarium domes
• spheric mirror projection for your own dome
• graphical interface and extensive keyboard control

visualisation

• equatorial and azimuthal grids
• star twinkling
• shooting stars
• eclipse simulation
• skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection

customisability

• add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

1-05-2006 Stellarium version 0.8.0 for Linux and Windows is released! The program is now multilingual, much more accurate, looks better, and has numerous new features (constellation boundaries, night mode, selectable home planet, more objects...) Please test it, report the bugs you encounter, add your experiences to the wiki, and complete the translations with Rosetta.

15-03-2006 The most important new service is the creation of the Stellarium wiki, the knowledge base where you'll eventually find answers to all Stellarium questions XML