Tecnics

Stellarium is a software project that allows the user to use your PC as a virtual planetarium. E ‘can calculate the position of the sun, moon, planets and stars, and play in the sky as they would appear to an observer at a given place and at any given time.

It can also draw the constellations and simulate astronomical phenomena such as meteor showers, eclipses of the Sun and Moon. Stellarium can be used as an educational tool for teaching the starry sky at night, as an aid for observational astronomy who wish to schedule a full observing, or simply for pleasure and curiosity.

The high quality graphics that Stellarium is able to produce, is also used in real planetariums using the shell projectors. Some groups of astronomy use it to create maps of heaven, to describe areas of sky in articles in magazines or newspapers. Stellarium is constantly and rapidly changing, and probably when you read these lines may be already a new version of the program with more features and benefits as described in this guide. Check the page often to download free of Stellarium to check for program updates, then the page User Guides to download the latest version of the guide using the program.

In a few days, will be published a full article on how to install and how to configure it.

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