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Stellarium (software)
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Stellarium is a free and open-source planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android, iOS, and Symbian as a paid version, being developed by Noctua Software. These have a limited functionality, lacking some features of the desktop version. All versions use OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time.[citation needed]
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Original author(s) | Fabien Chéreau |
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Developer(s) | Alexander Wolf Georg Zotti Marcos Cardinot Guillaume Chéreau Bogdan Marinov Timothy Reaves Florian Schaukowitsch |
Initial release | 2001 |
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Written in | C++ (Qt) |
Operating system | Linux, Windows, macOS |
Platform | PC, Mobile |
Size | 345 MB (Linux tarball) 261 MB (Windows 32-bit installer) 398 MB (Windows 64-bit installer) 243 MB (macOS package) |
Type | Educational software |
License | GNU GPLv2[2] |
Website | stellarium![]() |
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Stellarium was featured on SourceForge in May 2006 as Project of the Month.[3]