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The Stellarium Project
Stellarium is an open source desktop planetarium. It renders the skies in realtime using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Stellarium is very simple to use, which is one of its biggest advantages: it can easily be used by beginners.
What's New
Version 0.11.2:
One of the main directions of this version is localization:
- most of the text used by the default plug-ins is now translatable
- landscape names are now translatable
- country names are now translatable
- scripts names and descriptions are now translatable
- added an optional control panel displayed in the upper-right corner of the screen as an alternative to the pop-up menu that was used to control it in the previous version;
- overhaul of the pop-up menu, the underlined letters in it can be used as keyboard shortcuts;
- added the ability to rearrange the items in the lists of oculars, telescopes and sensors;
- fixed the inappropriate flipping of the binoculars view;
- fixed title bar of the Satellites config window not being resized with the rest of the window (LP: #900575)
- catalog numbers are now used to identify satellites, preventing bugs with duplicate satellites and satellites renamed in the source lists
- catalog number and international designator are now displayed for each satellite
- a simple windows to add satellites has been added (LP: #898476)
- Ctrl+C binding to copy selected object info text to clipboard.
- to the Windows installer options to remove files left over from the previous installation.
- windows no longer can be dragged to unreachable positions.
- the "Save settings" button now saves the current main window position, too.
- the language list is now sorted by language name, not language code.
- the "Reload style" action has been removed, as the underlying feature no longer works. If you decide to design a new visual style for Stellarium, please contact us to give you a version where it works.
- distance in km (if the distance is below 0.1 AU) to the information displayed about Solar System objects. (LP: #894472)
- the StelGui::getSkyGui() method to allow plug-in developers to create their own toolbars and other GUI elements.
- an option to show the galactic coordinates grid and the galactic plane.
- several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs): Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, Haumea.
- the Quasars plug-in.
- the Pulsars plug-in.
- more detailed information is now added to the log file for Mac OS X.
- (experimental) modelling of atmospheric extinction for point objects.
- changed the position of the text in the Text User Interface plug-in. (LP: #911594)
- a checkbox allowing the SIMBAD on-line search to be enabled/disabled.
- startup script crash (LP: #689657)
- plugin names localization in the Configuration window (LP: #807402)
- resizing of the tabs in Configuration and View windows on language change (LP: #821386)
- sky lines' labels not translated on language change (LP: #811659)
- "Get catalog" button not translated on language change (LP: #890608)
- last star catalog not being offered for download (LP: #538291, LP: #890789)
- proxy configuration without username/password
- Telescope Control plug-in: mishandling of IP connections in the telescope configuration window (LP: #843837)
- Pluto's moon Hydra preventing the constellation from being selected in Search and scripts (LP: #894780)
- scripting code still being included despite ENABLE_SCRIPTING set to 0 (LP: #811505)
- constellations lines and names not displayed (LP: #945146)
- newly created location cannot be set as default (LP: #889931)
Version 0.11.2:
One of the main directions of this version is localization:
- most of the text used by the default plug-ins is now translatable
- landscape names are now translatable
- country names are now translatable
- scripts names and descriptions are now translatable
- added an optional control panel displayed in the more...
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- 3D Card with support for OpenGL
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| Downloads:46,594 |
| Version Downloads:2,495 |
| Type:Education : Teaching Tools |
| License:Free |
| Date:17 Mar 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Stellarium is an open source desktop planetarium. It renders the skies in realtime using OpenGL, which means the skies will look exactly like what you see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Stellarium is very simple to use, which is one of its biggest advantages: it can easily be used by beginners.
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Alexrom1000 reviewed on 04 May 2011
No crashes, fast and full of interesting features. Compliments to developers!
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Docjk reviewed on 23 Feb 2010
Wow, I am impressed and that does not come easy!
Starts quickly, all functions work swiftly and without "hesitation", very nice animation, especially the planet magnification and animated orbits. Like to hunt for the "cruising satellites" with my binoculars. Very very fast as far as I can tell... I love the menu look :-) Huge language support, many interesting and useful preferences. Although I couldn't get the compass bearing plug-in to work, not sure if it´s me ;-)
For my needs as a non professional sky-observer in Northern Norway a great application. Can´t believe it´s free... Does really meet the famous "Mac spirit".
I might miss one additional useful function: Northern Lights indicator plug-in!?
Big thanks to the people behind the project! Definitely 5 stars!
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Hi,
I cannot seem to use the “Intel–only” build of 0.11.0 on my 10.6.8 system (model iMac6,1 with C2D, and 24" display, and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT). The screen initially turns absolute–black, then other apps windows will eventually “uncover” parts of what we’re suppose to see there bit–by–bit.
OTOH the “universal” build of this same 0.11.0 is functioning adequately (altho mouse–drags are sticky & slow, it is usable here).
I’ll try filing a bug–report at their launchpad repo.
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2007-06-06, r2229+macosx support
This is the really final release build of Stellarium 0.9.0.
INSTALLATION
1. You need to be running Macosx 10.4, preferably not 10.4.7. Drag the Stellarium.app icon from this .dmg window to your mac, and double click on it there to run it.
2. You don't need anything else for this build, it is all bundled inside.
3. If you had an earlier version of Stellarium set to start in full-screen mode, you want to remove your earlier configuration file. As listed in the Known Issues section, this version of Stellarium does not run very well when started in full-screen mode. Simply move the file:
~/Library/Preferences/Stellarium/config.ini
(That is: in your home directory, the Library directory, then the Preferences directory, then the Stellarium directory, the file called "config.ini")
to another location, or to the trash. Stellarium will copy a new config.ini file that starts in windowed mode.
4. An issue with mis-directed shared libraries discovered for the Intel architecture has been resolved.
ADDITIONAL STARS
There are four star catalogs included with the build, and additional star catalogs available from the Stellarium website, the "Extra-data-files" package. Each star catalog file listed there you wish to add to the stars available can be placed in:
~/Library/Preferences/Stellarium/stars/default
Up to catalog 6 has been tested on a PPC iBook with 750mb RAM, and there was something of a performance hit. The more RAM and the faster processor you have, the more stars catalogs you will be able to load.
KNOWN ISSUES
0.9.0 right now cannot *start* in full-screen mode. It can start in windowed mode and toggle back and forth to fullscreen mode. This seems to have to do with OpenGL and Qt, and it will be investigated in future releases.
The video mode list of the config screen has no options in it, the switch to Qt has made that display obsolete. It will be resolved later.
About half the time when quitting, Stellarium will crash on glDeleteTextures. It will show a "The application Stellarium quit unexpectedly" dialog. This does not seem to hurt anything, but there is an order of destruction that needs to be corrected in future releases.
ATI cards in Macs are known to not support point sprites properly. If you run Stellarium, but don't see any starts whatsoever, edit ~/Library/Preferences/Stellarium/config.ini, add this line:
flag_use_gl_point_sprite = false
to the [projection] section.
This build does not include all possible star catalogs. Details about how to download additional star catalogs separately and make the available to Stellarium will be forthcoming.
There is no audio support in this build.
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Give him a chance: a) this is free, b) when no-one else would port the project to Mac, he did. Version 0.8.1 will be out soon, so hold your horses.
Note that the config file has changed its location slightly from the previous version. Version 0.7.1 stored it in ~/Library/Preferences/stellarium.ini, whereas 0.8.0 stores it in ~/Library/Preferences/stellarium/config.ini
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can anyone help me?
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ps: i'm on 10.3.9
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Aragorn07 rated on 18 Feb 2011