Digitalis' mission is to create capable and affordable tools for astronomy education. was founded in January, 2003 to provide an affordable and full-featured planetarium projector for portable and small fixed domes. Stellarium is used in the Digitarium Alpha portable digital planetarium projector from Digitalis.Ībout Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc.:ĭigitalis Education Solutions, Inc.
sponsored development of the fisheye projection mode and continues to contribute enhancements to Stellarium such as the new scripting feature. Development continues under his leadership with contributions from many volunteers. Stellarium was created by Fabien Chereau of France. A major new feature with this release is a scripting capability, which allows Stellarium to perform complex tasks easily or even to play back complete prerecorded lessons.
Constellation drawings for other cultures now include Chinese, Polynesian, and Egyptian. Special features include the beautiful contemporary constellation art by Johan Meuris, realistic atmosphere rendering, meteor showers, eclipses, and the ability to view the whole sky at once in a 180 degree fisheye projection. Basic features include time control, viewing positions anywhere on Earth, photo-realistic landscapes, basic coordinate grids and lines, labels for all objects, an object search function, planet orbits and trails, precession of the equinoxes, and constellation line drawings and art. Stellarium renders over 100,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalog, as well as in-situ images of most of the Messier deep sky objects. The interface is simple and intuitive, which makes it easy even for children to operate. Stellarium is a great resource for educators, parents, amateur sky gazers, or anyone wanting a better understanding of the night sky. With Stellarium you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars, or a small telescope. Realism is one of the great strengths of Stellarium. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows, and Mac OSX (version 0.7.0 for OSX is not yet released, but 0.6.2 is available). Stellarium is freely downloadable software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. Stellarium version 0.7.0, an open source desktop planetarium program, has just been released. Paris, France and Bremerten, WA (PRWEB) September 11, 2005
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