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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 the Jupiter. You can select different intensities in the View window.

A shooting star flashes past the 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, the Milky Way.

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

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Constellation art turned on.

Constellation art turned on.

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user contributed sky cultures

We have a few user contributed sky cultures which are not included in the default package for various reasons.

  • list of sky cultures

sky cultures: list

Armintxe Cave 0.20+
Xabier Gezuraga Jauregi N/A personal
A full description of sky culture.
Elvish 0.20+
Jim Manning, Alexander Wolf N/A personal

This skyculture is pseudomythological and based on Elvish star lore from books by J.R.R. Tolkien

Perseus, Andromeda, and all the others 0.20+
Holger Kraemer N/A personal

Greek myths, and how they made it to the nightsky. a bit funny and totally un-bloody. This overlay uses the same characters and figures as used in my lectures at at the Schriesheim public observatory. Not all myths are not entirely complete and have been interpreted here and the with a certain degree of freedom, since the original editions (Collection from Gustav Schwab a.o.) were not found to be so useful to inspire kids for the nightsky.

Hevelius 0.13+
Mark Crossley N/A single

Constellation images from Johannes Hevelius’s famous 17th century Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia star atlas.

A mixture of high resolution images from the US Naval Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute, and some lower resolution images. All images have been further processed to clean up and provide suitable contrast for Stellarium.

All the high resolution Hevelius images courtesy of U.S. Naval Observatory and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Irish 0.20+
Julie Ormonde, Alexander Wolf N/A personal

Data about ancient irish constellations was received from book “Constellation Stories of Ancient Ireland” by Julie Ormonde. Data can be used for non-commercial usage only.

Neapolitan 0.20+
UAN (Unione Astrofili Napoletani) - Gruppo Costellazioni Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 personal

Here is the sky above Naples, told by the Neapolitan constellations and by the imagination of the Constellations group of the Neapolitan Amateur Astronomers Union (UAN)!

Western (Sternenkarten) 0.20+
Edgar Scholz CC BY-ND 4.0 International personal
A full description of sky culture.
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