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Intro:
Stellarium is a free software available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Features:
+ Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos for the brightest ones.
+ Planets and major satellites in real time, with a powerfull zoom mode to see them like in a telescope.
+ Planet position computation now accurate enough for eclipse or transit simulation.
+ Drawing of the 88 constellations with their names.
+ Textured displaying of more than 70 nebulas (Orion, M31 etc..).
+ Photorealistic Milky Way.
+ Ground, fog, and landscape.
+ Ultra fast realistic atmosphere rendering.
+ Automatic eye adaptation to luminance.
+ Star twinkling.
+ Smooth real time intuitive navigation.
+ Equatorial and altazimutal mode.
+ Fisheye projection mode (e.g for planetarium dome).
+ Grids in Equatorial and Azimuthal coordinates.
+ Time control (real time and accelered time modes).
+ Graphical menu for simple utilisation.
+ Clikable stars, planets and nebulas with informations.
+ Ecliptic and celestrial equator lines.
+ Windowed and fullscreen modes.