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Fabien Chéreau Stellarium for Mac OS X 0.9.0

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

Stellarium has the following other editions available: Stellarium for Windows.

Latest Changes:

• Larger star catalog including stars from Hiparcos, Tycho2 and NOMAD
• Can select multiple constellations at one time
• Local script directory is reread when enter TUI
• Inuit constellation art by Johan Meuris
• More sky cultures
• Large code reorganization into a modular structure based on StelModule, StelApp singleton and its `manager` classes providing services to the modules
• Projection code cleaned and splitted into Mapping classes
• Movement control code encapsulated into the MovementMgr module
• Code cleaning and commenting
• Sidereal day/week keystrokes (ALT -, ALT =, ALT [, ALT ])
• Data files reorganized
• Added back Hawaiian translations (invented locale `hw`)
• Orthographic projection, Lamberts Equal Area projection, Cylinder projection
• Interpolate the elliptic coordinates (or the spherical coordinates in case of the moon)
• Do not place the Earth at the EMB but at its proper position
• New orbit type comet_orbit for proper calculation of elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic orbits
• Added loading of jpeg textures and re-coded most of the texture manager
• Allow loading of plug-ins (unstable until version 1.0)
• Selection of object is managed per module, and by the StelObjectManager
• Recoded Grid display to allow for adaptative scale wrt zoom and labeling
• The main window managed by QT4.2 instead of SDL
• Window resizing
• Smooth go to selected solar system body by pressing control-g
• Location map updates on changing observer to new solar system body
• Titlebar updates after moving to new planet
• Landscapes may now have location, can update observer by selecting landscape
• More nebula textures and better placement of most existing textures
• Build is now managed by cmake instead of autoconf/automake

Download Stellarium for Mac OS X 0.9.0 (File Size: 45,900 KB)

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Stellarium for Mac OS X 0.9.0 details:

• Publisher Name: Fabien Chereau;
• License Type: Open Source;
• OS Support: Mac OS X;
• Limitations: No;
• Uninstaller Support: No;
• Skin Support: No;

More info and demos: Fabien Chéreau

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