A free open source desktop planetarium for your Mac

Stellarium for Mac

Stellarium 0.9.0

  -  45.38 MB  -  Open Source

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Stellarium 0.9.0.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Stellarium for Mac or reading our review, simply click here.


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What's new in this version:

- 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. These old tools are still supported for this version.