Stellarium Astronomy Software


This article will help you download and install Stellarium Astronomy Software version v0.22.2 on your computer. Follow the direct download link and instructions below for guidance on installing Stellarium Astronomy Software v0.22.2 on your computer.

Table of Contents

  • About the software
  • Sky
  • Interface
  • visualization


Customizability


Stellarium Astronomy Software v0.22.2 System Requirements


Minimum


recommended


How to Download and Install Stellarium Astronomy Software v0.22.2


Required files


Information about the software

Stellarium can be used as a free open source planetarium for your PC. It recreates the 3D view of the sky with binoculars and a telescope.

Stellarium Astronomy Software has the following main features:


sky

  • Over 600,000.00 stars default catalog
  • Extra catalogs featuring more than 177,000,000 stars
  • Over 80,000 deep-sky objects in the default catalog
  • Extra catalog featuring more than 1,000,000 deep sky objects
  • Illustrations of the constellations and asterisms
  • Get constellations for 40+ diverse cultures
  • Images of nebulae from the full Messier catalog
  • Realism in the Milky Way
  • very realistic atmosphere, sunrise, and sunset
  • The satellites of the planets
  • All-sky surveys, DSS, HiPS


interface

  • a powerful zoom
  • Time control
  • multilingual interface
  • The fisheye projection in planetarium domes
  • Spheric mirror projection for your low-cost dome
  • The user interface is graphical and the keyboard has extensive control
  • Telescope control


visualization

  • Many coordinate grids
  • precession circles
  • star twinkling
  • Shooting stars
  • Tails of comets
  • Simulation of the eclipse
  • Simulation of supernovae & novae
  • exoplanet locations
  • 3D Sceneries
  • Skinnable landscapes with spheric projection


customizability

  • Plugin system adding artificial satellites to ocular simulation, telescope controlling, and more
  • ability to add new solar system objects from online resources…
  • Add your deep sky objects, landscapes and constellation images to create your own scripts


Stellarium Astronomy Software v0.22.2 System Requirements


minimal

  • Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
  • The 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.3 or OpenGL ES 2.0
  • RAM Memory: 512 MiB
  • 600 MiB on disk
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse, Touchpad, or similar pointing device




  • Linux/Unix; Windows 7 & above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 & above
  • OpenGL 3.3 or higher supported on the 3D graphics cards
  • 1 GiB RAM or More
  • 1.5 GiB on disk
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse, Touchpad, or similar pointing device
  • Moderately dark environment (deep shadow or indoors)


How to download and install Stellarium Astronomy Software version0.22.2

  1. Once you have finished downloading the files required, click the download button. Depending on the speed of your download, this could take between a few minutes and a few hours.
  2. Extract the downloaded files. If you don’t know how to extract, see this article. QWERTY is always the password to extract!

  3. Run Setup.exe then install the program