The mobile app features a catalogue of more than 600,000 stars on a zoomable map that can also be used as a viewfinder and star or satellite identifier by pointing your phone up at the night sky. (The Android version is a free download, with in-app purchases unlocking features Stellarium Mobile Plus is a $9.99 app on iOS.) Mobile versions for Android and iOS let you take your sky guide with you when you head out to stargaze. Stellarium has long been a well-regarded open-source planetarium app on desktop devices. A link to a free copy of this book as a PDF may be found on is a functioning planetarium on a mobile device. Some amateur astronomy groups use it to create sky maps for describing regions of the sky in articles for newsletters and magazines, and the exchangeable sky cultures feature invites its use in the field of Cultural Astronomy research and outreach.Ĭolor images and text have been converted to grayscale. Because of the high quality of the graphics that Stellarium produces, it is used in some real planetarium projector products and museum projection setups. Stellarium may be used as an educational tool for teaching about the night sky, as an observational aid for amateur astronomers wishing to plan a night's observing or even drive their telescopes to observing targets, or simply as a curiosity (it's fun ).
It can also draw the constellations and simulate astronomical phenomena such as meteor showers or comets, and solar or lunar eclipses. It calculates the positions of the Sun and Moon, planets and stars, and draws how the sky would look to an observer depending on their location and the time. Stellarium is a software project that allows people to use their home computer as a virtual planetarium.
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