Stellarium 0.14.0 Final Multilingual Portable

This is the portable version of Stellarium, a simple-to-use application that allows you to view planets and constellations, as well as find out information about them. All of this is possible in a 3D environment. Since installing the app is not required, you can store Stellarium on a USB flash drive or similar storage device, save it to any computer and directly run its executable file.

Therefore, you can have Stellarium with you whenever you're on the go. Plus, the Windows Registry is not updated with new entries and no leftover files can be found on the hard drive after program removal.

The application is initialized in full screen mode. So, you can click any spot or object in the virtual sky, in order to find out various details about it, such as the distance, spectral type, magnitude, galactic longitude and latitude, size.

In addition, you can toggle between daytime and nighttime, display constellation lines, labels and art, along with the equatorial and Azimuthal grid. But you can also view the ground, cardinal points, show nebulas, planet labels, switch to ocular viewing mode, display satellite hints, center on a selected object, as well as increase or decrease the speed of time.

From the 'Settings' screen, you can customize some preferences regarding the sky (e.g. absolute and relative scale of stars, hourly zenith rate for shooting stars), markings (e.g. perspective or fish-eye projection), landscape (e.g. Hurricane, Mars) and star lore (e.g. Arabic, Aztec). Plus, you can use a search function for celestial objects, among others.

The fun tool requires a very low amount of CPU and system memory, so it shouldn't put a strain on any computer. It is very responsive to commands and comes with nice graphics. All in all, Stellarium is an excellent application for all people interested in studying or merely observing planets and constellations.

FEATURES
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

System Requirements

Minimal
• Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; OS X 10.7.4 and above
• A 3D openGL acceleration card and a good CPU.
• 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.1
• 512 MiB RAM
• 250 MiB on disk

Recommended
• Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; OS X 10.8.5 and above
• 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above
• A 3D openGL acceleration card and a good CPU.
• 1 GiB RAM or more
• 1.5 GiB on disk

New in version 0.14.0 (October 24, 2015)
• Version 0.14.0 brings a big leap forward in astronomical accuracy for historical applications:
• Precession now follows the IAU2006 model in the long-time version from Vondrak et al. 2011.
• Nutation is applied (IAU2000B solution). Given that nobody has observed it without telescope and the model does not give limits of applicability, we limit its application to 1500..2500
• Application of DeltaT has been simplified and made a bit more intuitive.
• We now dare to add another coordinate system: Ecliptic coordinates of date. We can therefore now show that planetary positions given by the commonly used solution VSOP87 is applicable to -4000..+8000 only, and its use outside this range will give somewhat artificial results. There is more to follow in future versions.
• The other big addition is a greatly improved collection of DSO data with lots of possibilities in a new GUI tab to select for object type and/or catalog. In total, 15 catalogs are now built-in!
• Also the Meteor Shower, Satellites, Telescope Control and 3D Sceneries plugins have been improved.
• Landscapes can have switchable labels, so you can e.g. indicate mountain peaks.
• In total 83 bugs and wishlist items were fixed or at least decided.
• A platform-specific change for Windows: OpenGL binding is now dynamic. That means, there are no more separate OpenGL/ANGLE/MESA downloads, but after installation you will have separate commands in the start menu which force ANGLE or MESA modes.

Installer x86 and x64 Stellarium 0.14.0 Final

OS: Windows 2K / XP / Vista / 7 / 8

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