Stellarium
A very useful tool for amateur astronomers. This helpful software displays the exact positions of objects in the night sky in real time. The graphics are smooth and it gives you the ability to zoom into objects for a closer look.
The features of the software (as listed on the official site), are as follows:
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for twelve different cultures
- images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
- realistic Milky Way
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- the planets and their satellites
- a powerful zoom
- time control
- multilingual interface
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
- all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- eclipse simulation
- skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
- plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescrope configuration and more
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
Also, visit the official site for detailed info : http://www.stellarium.org/
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