Stellarium for Linux free download

Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. Stellarium is available for Linux/Unix, MacOSX and Windows. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.Here are some key features of "Stellarium":Sky- Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos for the brightest ones.- Planets and major satellites in real time (position computation now accurate enough for eclipse or transit simulation).- Drawing of the 88 constellations with their names.- Mythological figures of the 88 constellations.- Textured displaying of more than 70 nebulas (Orion, M31 etc..).- Photo-realistic Milky Way.- Star twinkling.- Shooting Stars.Landscape & visualization- Skinable landscape (ground, fog, mapping of fisheye pictures).- Ultra fast realistic atmosphere rendering (Sunsets, sunrises etc...).- Automatic eye adaptation to sky luminance using physiologic model.- Grids in Equatorial and Azimuthal coordinates.- Equator and ecliptic coordinates lines.Navigation & rendering- Smooth real time intuitive navigation.- Powerfull zoom to see planet and nebula like in a telescope.- Equatorial and altazimutal mount mode.- Standard perspective and wide angle (fisheye) projections modes (e.g for planetarium dome).- Time control (real time and accelered time modes).- Graphical menu for simple utilisation.- Clikable stars, planets and nebulas with informations.- Windowed and fullscreen modes.- Full dome (180?) projection mode for planetariums.- Text user interface for planetariums.