Celestia - Software Summary - FOSSFORUS

Celestia - Software Summary - FOSSFORUS




Celestia

CelestiaScreenshot of Celestia Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel through the solar system, to any of more than 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A "point-and-goto" interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

Celestia is expandable. It comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft, but if that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy-to-install add-ons with more objects.
CelestiaScreenshot of Celestia
Celestia is similar to:
Starry Night, Stellarium, WorldWide Telescope
Celestia is used for:
astronomy
Who uses Celestia:
astronomer, educator, home user, planetarium operator, student, teacher
Other tags:
3D Rendering, Algorithms, Astronomy, Education, Games/Entertainment, Mathematics, planetarium, Science/Research, Sound/Audio
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Features:

* (From Wikipedia)
* Displays the Hipparcos Catalogue (HIP) of almost 120,000 stars
* Uses the very accurate VSOP87 theory of planetary orbits
* Can travel/fly through the Celestia universe using simple keyboard controls at any speed from 0.001m/s to millions of light years/s
* Viewpoints can be set to look forward, backward or at any angle to direction of travel
* Controls allow users to orbit stars, planets, moons and other space objects, track space objects such as spacecraft, asteroids and comets as they fly by, or travel to and/or fly through nebula and irregular, elliptical and spiral galaxies (over 10,000 galaxies included)
* The time simulated by Celestia can be set at any point in the future or past"