A free open source desktop planetarium for your Mac

Stellarium for Mac

Stellarium 0.10.0

  -  61.1 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 0.10.0.


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


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

- Global switch to Qt. Don't support SDL main application anymore.
- The whole StelApp class is managed by a QGraphicsScene, inside a QGraphicsView.
- Removed deprecated sources from the core of stellarium (old GUI, TUI and scripting).
- Continued API cleaning and simplifications.
- Performed large refactorings to use portable Qt API (migrated from std::string and std::wstring to QString).
- Re-organized the source files into sub-directories.
- Migrated config file parsing to a QSettings based implementation.
- Exposed some methods as slots so that they can be scripted in the future.
- Created the new Qt-based GUI button bars (QGraphicsItems).
- Recoded from scratch the new QWidget based GUI rendered in the QGraphicsView using style sheets.
- Moved stars/planets halo rendering into SkyDrawer.
- Implemented dynamic eye adaptation for bright objects.
- Optimized atmosphere computation and others, speed can be increased up to a factor of 2.
- Implemented light pollution following the Bortle scale index.
- Improved and optimized stars rendering (updated colors, sizes and added large halo for very bright ones, use GL lists for drawing stars by bunch)
- Made testing python wrappers using SIP (unused)
- Created a new SkyTile class supporting lazy dynamic multi-resolution images loading and display. Image trees can be stored as JSON files.
- Startup is much faster.
- Migrated the previous nebula textures to the new format.
- Added a LocationManager for managing observing locations and cleaned the code of observer.
- Changed key bindings, use F1.. F6 for opening dialogs.
- Tab completion on the search dialog.
- Added descriptions for the sky cultures and improved the ones for landscapes.
- Added a new mars landscape.
- Fixed many bugs.