Wednesday 29 July 2009

Stellarium: night sky simulation software


Stellarium, for linux
Exploring the educational section of softwares for Gnome, I stumbled upon this incredible program: Stellarium.

You just enter your location and it simulates the sky over you at that moment. Very useful for amateur astronomers or night sky passionate.

There are also a lot of cool features to make the sky similar to the real sky: you can regulate the magnitude and the light pollution, or you can accelerate or choose the time, you can label costellations, stars or nebulae (so you can learn star's names or costellations), make zooms and a lot more.

Practical, easy to use and interesting.
It is also available for Windows.

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