About
Stellarium is a non profit, cooperative group effort. Sponsors include Sourceforge which hosts the project files, website and SVN repositories. Sourceforge have pushed many terabytes of data for Stellarium during the life of the project. Digitalis Education Solutions sponsors the development of planetarium-related features. The European Southern Observatory sponsored and hosted the 2007 Stellarium developer meeting.
Review
Stellarium is an astronomy site. It is a 3 dimensional map of the stars. Stellarium is a free open source planetarium so functionality may be added by members. You set your coordinates and date and Stellarium shows you the stars in the sky that night. Its GPL software renders realistic skies in real time, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. It has a default catalogue of over 600,000 stars, asterisms and illustrations of the constellations, constellations for twelve different cultures, images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue), realistic Milky Way, very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset, the planets and their satellites. The visualization includes star twinkling, shooting stars, eclipse simulation, skinnable landscapes, spheric panorama projection. There is a wiki and forum. Tweens who like the stars, will love Stellarium.
Genre: Digital Media - Open Source Website
Warnings: None
Advertisements: No
Target Audience: The Human Race
Stellarium is included because it is a fascinating scientific website that will hold interest for tweens who like astronomy.
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