After 20 years of development took place the release of the project stellarium 1.0 , developing a free planetarium for three -dimensional navigation in the starry sky. The basic catalog of celestial objects has more than 600 thousand stars and 80 thousand objects of deep cosmos (additional catalogs cover more than 177 million stars and more than a million objects of deep space), and also includes information about constellations and foggy. The project code is written on C ++ using the QT framework and is distributed under the GPLV2 license. Builds are delivered for Linux, Windows and MacOS.
The interface provides flexible scalating opportunities, 3D visualization and simulations of various objects. The project is supported to the planetarium dome, the creation of mirror projections and integration with the telescope. To expand the functionality and control of the telescope, plugins can be used. The possibility of adding their own space objects, the simulation of artificial satellites and the implementation of their forms of visualization is provided.
The new version has been made to the QT6 framework and an acceptable level of accuracy of reproduction of past states was provided. A new significantly improved model of the sky lighting is proposed. Increased details during the simulation of eclipses. The capabilities of the astronomical calculator are expanded. Improved work on high -density pixels (hidpi) screens. Improved dizoring. Information about the perception of the objects of the starry sky in the culture of the peoples of the archipelago Sama .