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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

A shooting star flashes past Jupiter. You can select different intensities in the View window.

A shooting star flashes past Jupiter. You can select different intensities in the View window.

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The great nebula in Orion. Press N to bring up the nebula labels. Also shown are constellation lines, press C to show or hide them.

The great nebula in Orion. Press N to bring up the nebula labels.

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The dance of the planets above ESO headquarters, near Munich.

The dance of the planets above ESO headquarters, near Munich.

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Full sky view of the constellations, their boundaries and the Milky Way.

Full sky view of the constellations, their boundaries and the Milky Way.

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Constellation art turned on.

Constellation art turned on.

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user contributed 3D sceneries

We are collecting user-contributed 3D sceneries of astronomical interest (not necessarily your garden shack).

3D Sceneries

Callanish, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland 1.0+
Emma Rennie, Archaeoptics, Victor Reijs, and Georg Zotti Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license English
Callanish I (in English) or Calanais I (in Scottish Gaelic) on the Isle of Lewis is one of the oldest, and largest, megalithic sites in the UK. More information...
Chankillo, Peru 1.0+
Georg Zotti, Ivan Ghezzi, Clive Ruggles CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 English
The thirteen towers of Chankillo are an extraordinary monument located in the arid coastal region of northern Peru. They functioned as a solar calendrical device built on a monumental scale, quite unique in the world. It was constructed over 2,200 years ago and still functions today.
Pietre dell’Incavallicata, Italy 1.0+
Ilaria Cristofaro CC BY-ND 4.0 English
The megaliths of Pietre dell’Incavallicata are sandstone rocky formations located on the border of the Sila Grande mountains (Campania, CS, Calabria, South of Italy).
Tibetan Calendar Observatory (Stag Phu Nyi Thig), Tibet 1.0+
Georg Zotti, Martin Gamon Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0 license English
Stag Phu Nyi Thig, the Tiger High Valley Gnomon, is a piece of lost Tibetan culture rebuilt in China's "Snow Land", the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is used to calibrate the Tibetan calendar by an observation of sunrise annually on March 17.
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