

Spherical mirror distortion is used in projection systems that utilize a digital video projector and a first surface convex spherical mirror to project images onto a dome. The fisheye and spherical mirror distortion features allow Stellarium to be projected onto domes. Deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts etc.Graphical interface and extensive keyboard control.Spheric mirror projection for personal domes.Fisheye projection for planetarium domes.Saturn, Phobos, comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) or any other object defined in ssystem.ini) Ability to display stars and other celestial objects as seen from reference points other than the Earth (e.g.Planets of the solar system and their major moons.


Ī modified version of Stellarium has been used by the MeerKAT project as a virtual sky display showing where the antennae of the radiotelescope are pointed. In 2006, Stellarium 0.7.1 won a gold award in the Education category of the Les Trophées du Libre free software competition. Stellarium was featured on SourceForge in May 2006 as Project of the Month. Other developers include Robert Spearman, Johannes Gajdosik, Matthew Gates, Nigel Kerr, and Johan Meuris, who is responsible for the artwork. Stellarium was developed by the French programmer Fabien Chéreau, who launched the project in the summer of 2001. It uses OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time. Stellarium is a free software planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
