Stellarium

Posted by ryan at 05:42 PM in science . | 2 Comments

Stellarium is free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX.
With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

I've been playing around with this quite a bit today and it is a pretty amazing piece of software. You can pick any location on the planet and get a view of the stars from that position at any given time.