Celestia
Celestia is a free 3D astronomy program for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It was created by Chris Laurel and is licensed under the GPL.
| Celestia Europe Io Jupiter.jpg | |
| Original author(s) | Chris Laurel |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Chris Laurel, Celestia Development Team |
| Initial release | 26 February 2001[1] |
| Stable release | 1.6.1 / 10 June 2011[2] |
| Preview release | 1.6.2-beta2 / 20 February 2020[3] |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | AmigaOS 4[source?], BSD, Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows |
| Size | Linux: 27.7 MB AmigaOS 4: 44.4 MB macOS: 38.7 MB Windows: 32.8 MB Source code: 52.6 MB[4] |
| Available in | 28 languages[5] |
| Type | Educational software |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | celestia |
The program is based on the Hipparcos Catalogue (118,218 Stars) and allows users to display objects from artificial satellites to entire galaxies in three dimensions in OpenGL. Different from other planetarium software, the user is free to travel in the universe.
NASA and ESA have used Celestia, but it is not to be confused with Celestia 2000, ESA's own program.[6]
On 31st October 2022, a Chinese game developer named Linfeng Li created a mobile version of Celestia for android devices.
Celestia Media
Typical DSO survey in Celestia
Image of what Earth may look like 5-7 billion years from now, when the Sun swells and becomes a Red Giant.
An addon by the user Trolligi 112477 (Or just Trolligi) for Celestia which adds the nebula NGC 4361 *Own work (Screenshot)
A fictional system made in the open source space simulator Celestia.
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Alpha release". GitHub. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ↑ "Celestia: News". celestia.space. 10 June 2011. Archived from the original on 3 April 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ↑ onetwothree (20 February 2020). "New bugfix release 1.6.2-beta1 - Celestia Forums". celestia.space. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
The 2nd beta of upcoming 1.6.2 (windows version) is published to github.
- ↑ "Celestia - Browse Files at SourceForge.net". SourceForge. Geeknet, Inc. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
- ↑ "Celestia localization". Transifex. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ↑ "Celestia 2000 - Hipparcos - Cosmos". ESA. Retrieved 14 March 2020.