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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

A shooting star flashes past the Jupiter. You can select different intensities in the View window.

A shooting star flashes past the Jupiter. You can select different intensities in the View window.

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The great nebula in Orion. Press N to bring up the nebula labels. Also shown are constellation lines, press C to show or hide them.

The great nebula in Orion. Press N to bring up the nebula labels.

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The dance of the planets above ESO headquarters, near Munich.

The dance of the planets above ESO headquarters, near Munich.

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Full sky view of the constellations, their boundaries, the Milky Way.

Full sky view of the constellations, their boundaries, the Milky Way.

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Constellation art turned on.

Constellation art turned on.

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user contributed 3D sceneries

We are collecting user-contributed 3D sceneries of astronomical interest (not necessarily your garden shack).

3D Sceneries

Callanish, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland 1.0+
Emma Rennie, Archaeoptics, Victor Reijs, and Georg Zotti Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license English

Callanish I (in English) or Calanais I (in Scottish Gaelic) on the Isle of Lewis is one of the oldest, and largest, megalithic sites in the UK. More information…
Tibetan Calendar Observatory (Stag Phu Nyi Thig), Tibet 1.0+
Georg Zotti, Martin Gamon Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0 license English

Stag Phu Nyi Thig, the Tiger High Valley Gnomon, is a piece of lost Tibetan culture rebuilt in China’s “Snow Land”, the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is used to calibrate the Tibetan calendar by an observation of sunrise annually on March 17.
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