Stellarium 0.14.2 for lovers of astronomy

Stellarium 0.14.2 is the ideal application for astronomy lovers, whether they are professionals or enthusiasts of the study of the celestial bodies. And it was officially launched in January 2016 and has some interesting improvements with which its developers will try to revolutionize the way we study the sky.

Stellarium is developed in free code LPG and visual programming language OpenGL, with Stellarium you can have a real and very accurate view of the night sky, look at the Milky Way with your viewfinder, and appreciate images of nebulae, planets of the solar system and its moons and stroll through its extensive catalog of more than 600.000 stars, expandable to 210 million, In addition, watching the sunset and sunrise with a very realistic context, for all this and more, it becomes a tool that can be used as a resource for learning.

But not everything is there, something that makes Stellarium such an interesting application is that from its interface we can simulate both the type of view and as the type of projection, also determine the observer's geographical position (even from outside planet earth if the user so decides), handle the zoom meeting, and even control the time, since we can simulate an eclipse that has already happened or one that will happen in the future, manage telescopes, and manage different types effects and customize them.

In this version 0.14.2 by Stellarium han fixed a number of bugs, trying to optimize the edition of the keyboard shortcuts, and some altitude and perspective errors in some contexts, as well as repair some bad links from sky culture. Reduce el brightness of the planets when viewed with the simulation of sunlight, so does the DSO catalog (objects from deep space, outside the solar system), and their Scenery 3D plugin which is responsible for the integration of architectural models with representations of the sky (a la Stonehenge) stands out for the updates that make it more robust.

An important novelty is the inclusion that its developers made of a list of dwarf galaxies (these are galaxies with only a few million stars) in the search tool: Tucana, Cetus, Sextans, Cave Calabash, Egg Boomeran, or Cassiopeia (which helps us to locate the polar star on clear nights) are just some of those that we can find and that will help us to locate every time we look at the sky at night.

Stellarium 0.14.2, a tool with which we can appreciate from stars and planets, to nebulae and so many space bodies in real time and in which, thanks to the collaboration of the community improvements and functionalities have been included that enrich and make this "The best open source multiplatform software to use as a complete planetarium", in the words of Alexander Wolf.

If you are fond of astronomy, you already know it, and surely you have also used it. If not, but you still don't want to miss everything that Stellarium brings, you can start by downloading it here There is no doubt that with this complete software knowing the night sky will no longer be difficult and it will be more entertaining, and with which you will not miss a single detail.