Stellarium
Desktop Planetarium Source
Description
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets and nebulae, and has many other features including multiple panoramic landscapes, fog, light pollution simulation and a built-in scripting engine.
Stellarium comes with a star catalogue of about 600 thousand stars and it is possible to download extra catalogues with up to 220 million stars.
Stellarium has multiple sky cultures - see the constellations from the traditions of Polynesian, Inuit, Navajo, Korean, Greek and Chinese astronomers, as well as the traditional Western or official modern constellations.
It is also possible to visit other planets in the solar system - see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan.
Notice
For a good mobile experience, maybe look into running the Ubuntu Touch variant of Stellarium.
- https://stellarium.org/img/screenshots/0.10-constellations.jpg
- https://stellarium.org/img/screenshots/0.10-from-mars.jpg
- https://stellarium.org/img/screenshots/0.10-orion-nebula.jpg
- https://stellarium.org/img/screenshots/0.10-planets.jpg
- https://www.stellarium.org/img/screenshots/0.10-constellation-art-on.jpg
Rating
Mobile Fit: 3Some parts of the app are not usable with touch input on small screens, even with scale-to-fit
Project status: released
This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.
The project repository was created on 2014-04-13.
The last known commit happened on 2025-03-31.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-03-31
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Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.stellarium.Stellarium.flatpakref
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Licensing and technical details
License: GPL-2.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0
Frameworks: QtWidgets
Build system: cmake
AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stellarium/stellarium/master/data/org.stellarium.Stellarium.appdata.xml