Before this post I have already shared some nice astronomy related software & stellarium is one of the best free planetarium software . It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

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Sky

1. default catalog of over 600,000 stars
2. extra catalogs with more than 210 million stars
3. asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
4. constellations for twelve different cultures
5. images of nebulae (full Messier catalog)
6. realistic Milky Way
7. very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
8. the planets and their satellites

Interface

1. a powerful zoom
2. time control
3. multilingual interface
4. fish eye projection for planetarium domes
5. spherical mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
6. all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
7. telescope control

Visualization

1. equatorial and azimuthal grids
2. star twinkling
3. shooting stars
4. eclipse simulation
5. skinnable landscapes, now with spherical panorama projection

Customization

1. plugin system adding artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
2. ability to add new solar system objects from online resources…
3. add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts…

According to me stellarium is must try software even you don’t have interest in astronomy . It will create interest in you about astronomy . Working with stellaruim is so easy even you can zoom any star like you can do in telescope. The software has nice options to customize your observation even you can select what you have to see .

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