Stellarium - your home virtual planetarium

The starry night sky is truly a beautiful and amazing sight. If you do not have the opportunity to observe such a sky, then do not be discouraged. This can be done using special emulator program. Yes, you heard right. Today we will talk about a program that is a starry sky emulator. The Stellarium program is a virtual planetarium that is freely available. This application is open source and compatible with almost all modern operating systems. Moreover, there are versions of the program that work with mobile operating systems such as Android, Symbian and iOS.

You can briefly list the main functions and capabilities of this program. First of all, users can observe the realistic sky in real time. Secondly, with the help of this program you can see what can be seen in real life with a telescope of different sizes. And thirdly, using this program you can observe solar eclipses and the movements of comets.

You can say a few words about the interface, namely about language support. The program supports 122 world languages. Among them is the Russian language.

There are about 600 stars in the standard catalog of the Stellarium program. If this is not enough for you, you can download additional catalogs. There are 000 million stars in these catalogs. Agree that this number is impressive.

Also in the program you will find planets throughout our solar system, a realistic milky way, moons of planets, realistic sunsets, sunrises and much more. It is worth noting that the user himself can configure the viewing mode for all of the above phenomena. If you want to plunge into the world of the starry sky, then download and enjoy the Stellarium program, which can be downloaded below from any browser.

Download Stellarium for free

Download the program from the official website http://www.stellarium.org/ru/