Original author(s) | Fabien Chéreau |
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Developer(s) | Alexander Wolf Georg Zotti Marcos Cardinot Guillaume Chéreau Bogdan Marinov Timothy Reaves Florian Schaukowitsch |
Initial release | 2001 |
Stable release |
0.15.2 / 21 March 2017
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Repository | code |
Written in | C++ (Qt) |
Operating system | BSD, Linux, Windows, macOS |
Platform | PC, Mobile |
Size | 147 MB (Linux tarball) 161 MB (Windows installer) 164 MB (macOS package) |
Type | Educational software |
License | GNU GPLv2 |
Website | www |
Stellarium is an open-source free-software planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, available for Linux, Windows and macOS. A port Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android, iOS & Symbian as a paid version, being developed by Noctua Software. It uses OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time.
Stellarium was created by the French programmer Fabien Chéreau, who launched the project in the summer of 2001. Currently, Stellarium is being maintained and developed by Alexander Wolf, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot, Guillaume Chéreau, Bogdan Marinov, Timothy Reaves, Ferdinand Majerech and Jörg Müller. There are a number of other developers who contributed with the development of Stellarium, including Robert Spearman, Johannes Gajdosik, Matthew Gates, Nigel Kerr, and Johan Meuris, who is responsible for the artwork.
Stellarium was featured on SourceForge in May 2006 as Project of the Month.
In 2006, Stellarium 0.7.1 won a gold award in the Education category of the Les Trophées du Libre free software competition.
A modified version of Stellarium has been used by the MeerKAT project as a virtual sky display showing where the antennae of the radiotelescope are pointed.
In December 2011, Stellarium was added as one of the "featured applications" in the Ubuntu Software Center.
In terms of sky features, over 600,000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue and the Tycho-2 Catalogue are accessible, as well as more than 210 million stars from additional catalogues.