This article will show you how to install the full version Stellarium Astronomy Software (v0.22.2) for free on your PC. You can download Stellarium Astronomy Software (v0.22.2) from the direct link below. Follow these instructions to install it on your computer.
Table of Contents
- Software
- Sky
- Interface
- visualization
You can customize
Stellarium Astronomy Software v0.22.2 System Requirements
Minimal
Highly recommended
How to Download and Install Stellarium Astronomy Software V0.22.2
Required files
The software
Stellarium can be used as a free open source planetarium for your PC. It displays a 3D sky just like you would see with your naked eye, binoculars or telescope.
Stellarium Astronomy Software’s main features are:
Sky
- Over 600,000 stars are in the default catalog
- extra catalogs with more than 177 million stars
- default catalog of over 80,000 deep-sky objects
- extra catalog with more than 1 million deep-sky objects
- Illustrations of the constellations and asterisms
- For 40+ cultures, constellations
- Images of nebulae from the full Messier catalog
- Realism in the Milky Way
- Sunrise and Sunset in a very real atmosphere
- The planets and their satellites
- All-sky surveys (DSS and HiPS)
interface
- a powerful zoom
- Time control
- multilingual interface
- The fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- Make your own dome with spheric reflection projection
- the graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- Telescope control
visualization
- Many coordinate grids
- precession circles
- star twinkling
- Shooting stars
- tails of comets
- Simulation of an eclipse
- Simulation of supernovae & novae
- exoplanet locations
- 3D sceneries
- skinnable landscapes with spheric panorama projection
customizability
- Plugin system adding artificial satellites to ocular simulation, telescope controlling, and more
- Ability to add new objects to the solar system 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 or higher; Mac OS X 10.12.0 or above
- OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.3 are supported by this 3D graphics card.
- RAM 512 MiB
- 600 MiB on disk
- Keyboard
- Mouse, Touchpad, or similar pointing device
recommended
- Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
- OpenGL 3.3 and higher is supported by the 3D graphics card
- 1 GiB RAM
- 1.5 GiB on disk
- Keyboard
- Mouse, Touchpad, or similar pointing device
- Moderately dark environment (deep shadow or indoors)
How do I download and install Stellarium Astronomy Software, v0.22.2
- Once you have finished downloading the files required, click the download button. This might take from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on your download speed.
- Extract the files. See this article if you are unsure how to extract. The password to extract will always be: QWERTY!
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Run Setup.exe. Install the software