Stellarium Portable – Planetarium for your Computer

Stellarium  Portable is a planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope, with realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset. It features over 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalog with associated information.

Stellarium Portable is the popular Stellarium astronomy program packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your astronomical viewing settings with you. It has all the same great features as Stellarium including constellation drawing, star names, planet viewing, nebulae watching, and more. Plus, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite astronomy program with you wherever you go.

Features

• [advt]It 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.
• You can view the planets and gaze at the stars in stunning detail.
• It includes vivid illustrations of the constellations and a theatrical display of ravishing nebulae and galaxies.
• With Stellarium Portable, you can transform any computer into a stargazing centerpiece

Download Stellarium  Portable

sky

• default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
• extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• constellations for twelve different cultures
• images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
• 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

visualisation

• equatorial and azimuthal grids
• star twinkling
• shooting stars
• eclipse simulation
• skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection

customizability

• plugin system adding artifical 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…