The free software offers a built-in catalogue of more than 600,000 stars and provides the ability to download additional catalogues of over 177 million stars. There is a zoom option available to simulate using a telescope or binoculars. Users can fast forward the time to track the movement of stars and other objects across the sky. Stellarium provides a real-time view of what the sky looks like from anywhere on earth. Stellarium is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Stellarium 1.0 is an open-source application which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time displaying stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and more. These packages are tagged with a version number like 0.22.3. This may include many Windows users who have to run ANGLE mode. We keep releasing Qt5-based packages for legacy or obsolete systems.

These packages are tagged with a version number like 1.22.3. This is the first release based on the Qt6 framework, so the project is safe for future development. The team behind the Stellarium planetarium software has announced that Stellarium 1.0 is now available.Īs the Stellarium planetarium team notes, “What makes this 1.0? After more than 20 years of development the program is finally accurate enough for historical application.

Stellarium software package