Interested in Astronomy? Love to look into the night sky? Being an amateur you would find it very difficult to identify stars and planets and other stuffs. But it can be made easy using certain Planetarium Softwares. These softwares show you how a night sky may look like at any time from any place. These softwares label every star so that you can identify it in the sky easily using the software. There are many such softwares available in the internet. I came across one such software which is very user-friendly.
Stellarium 0.9.1 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. It is being used in planetarium projectors. You can set your coordinates such as your location and time zone and look through the night sky. This software also shows you the planets, nebulae, galaxies, comets, meteors, etc. Every star, planet or a galaxy is labeled which makes it user-friendly. You can zoom into any stars or planets to know how it looks like in a telescope. You can also see the night sky of any time at any year. It even shows you the night sky of the year 2100.
Here are some of the Screen Shots of the software.
The full view of the constellations.
A shooting star passing near the Moon.
A zoomed in view of the Planet Jupiter.
A zoomed in view of a nebula.
the last photo of the nebula is awesome….kewl!!!gud job man…keep it up!!!
thanx!!
Try this software… It has helped me identify many constellations n nebulae n also the location of the planets…
Great!! Something I’ve been searching for!! I’ll get it right away! Btw, I finally found out the seven stars! the orion!! Been lookind for 5 days!! Its something like a bow right? The three stars in the middle(triple star) and two stars at the top and two at bottom!!
Hey! I’ve downloaded it! Its Awesome!! The display is soo cool!! Finally, I found out that Hunter guy
! Best software for Universe!! I’m going to research deeply !!
bow???i think …no…am sure it is the body of the hunter.
chk it properly sis….
I am weak in astronomy… so Inc, you got to guide me one day…
great job!!this is the first time i am visiting your blog.your blog is very informative.your efforts are seen.good job inchara.
thanks…
Hey nice blog. I agree stellarium is the best astronomy software I have seen. Really helps a newbie amateur astronomer….