A free open source desktop planetarium for your Mac

Stellarium for Mac

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Download Stellarium 23.4

Stellarium for Mac

  -  363.54 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    Stellarium 23.4 LATEST

  • Review by

    Marian Marinescu

  • Operating System

    macOS 11.0 Big Sur or later

  • User Rating

    Click to vote
  • Author / Product

    Fabien Chereau / External Link

  • Filename

    Stellarium-23.4-qt6-macOS.zip

  • MD5 Checksum

    92265095a2e5c59b516117883c94a72b

Stellarium for Mac 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. Just set your coordinates and go. Features of Stellarium for macOS:

Sky
  • Default catalog of over 600,000 stars
  • Extra catalogs with more than 210 million stars
  • Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
  • Constellations for twelve different cultures
  • Images of nebulae (full Messier catalog)
  • Realistic Milky Way
  • Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
  • The planets and their satellites
Interface
  • A powerful zoom
  • Time control
  • Multilingual interface
  • Fisheye projection for planetarium domes
  • Spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
  • All new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
  • Telescope control
Visualization
  • Equatorial and azimuthal grids
  • Star twinkling
  • Shooting stars
  • Eclipse simulation
  • Supernovae simulation
  • Skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
Customizability
  • Plugin system adding artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
  • Ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
  • Add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...
Note: Requires 64-bit processor.

Also Available: Download Stellarium for Windows

  • Stellarium 23.4 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

- New plugin: Lens Distortion Estimator (experimental)
- New sky culture: Tibetan Lunar Mansions
- Changed GUI: ability to change the look via normalStyle.css
- Added new MESA for Windows packages
- Added support Windows/ARM64 packages
- Added support the origins of nomenclature names
- Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
- Improvements for performance on macOS/ARM64

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