Stellarium for Mac

Stellarium is free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. Stellarium is also used in planetariums.

Features:

Sky

• Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and info

• Planets and major satellites in real time

• Asterisms of the 88 constellations with their names

• Mythological figures of the 88 constellations

• Images of more than 70 nebulas (Orion, M31 etc..).

• Photo-realistic Milky Way

• Star twinkling

• Shooting Stars

Landscape & visualization

• Skinnable landscape (ground, fog, mapping of fisheye pictures)

• Ultra fast realistic atmosphere rendering (sunsets, sunrises etc...)

• Automatic eye adaptation to sky luminance using physiologic model

• Grids in equatorial and azimuthal coordinates

• Equator and ecliptic coordinates lines

Navigation & rendering

• Smooth real time intuitive navigation

• Powerful zoom to see planets and nebulae like through a telescope

• Equatorial and altazimuthal mount mode

• Standard perspective and wide angle (fisheye) projection modes

• Time control (real time and accelerated time modes)

• Graphical menu for simple use

• Clickable stars, planets and nebulas, with information

• Windowed and fullscreen modes

• Full dome (180°) projection mode for planetariums

• Text user interface for planetariums