Unleash your Inner Scientist™

Haven’t you always wanted to “do some science” with your telescope or standalone DSLR?

The science is easy and exciting. You can learn as you go with our tutorial videos.

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With just a small telescope you can easily:

• determine any star’s OBAFGKM star-type and temperature from its spectra curve.
• identify the composition of a star or nebula from its emission and absorption lines
• detect the cosmological red-shift of a distant quasar!
• measure the blue-shift of a supernova’s expanding shell as it races towards us at millions of miles/hour.

Sky and Telescope Interview

In the video below, Dennis di Cicco, Senior Editor of Sky & Telescope Magazine interviews the author of RSpec, Tom Field.

Hear how easy it is to get started and the wonderful results you can get with a DSLR or a small backyard telescope. Dark skies and big telescopes aren’t necessary! You can probably get great spectra with your current setup, even from the suburbs. Watch this video:

The short video below will explain a bit more about spectroscopy with a small telescope, how exciting it is, and how you can probably use your current equipment.

Periodic Table of Spectra

Looking for our new poster? Click on this link.

Pardon our smile!

We’re pleased that Sky & Telescope Magazine awarded our RSpec software their “Hot Product” award. The award is given for product excellence and technical leadership. Our customers tell us the award was well-deserved because our ground-breaking software allows you to easily capture and process the spectra of stars.

Now you can easily capture the spectra of stars

Our RSpec software enables you to rapidly go from a static image (FITS, JPG, etc. or DSLR) or video file to a calibrated spectrum graph – in real-time. Now you can see a star or planet’s spectrum graph instantly, right at your telescope! No more waiting until later to see if you got the spectrum you hoped for.

Getting started in spectroscopy is easy. Use our inexpensive Star Analyser grating (link) on almost any camera or telescope. You’ll be able to easily see the spectra of distant stars. You can even use an unguided DSLR camera — no telescope needed.

But, don’t take our word for it — the video below shows the spectra of a bright star taken at 5 frames/second using an inexpensive video camera!

Better yet, see for yourself what’s possible. Check out our sample results page that shows what amateurs just like you have done: link.

In the past, creating an intensity graph from a star’s spectrum was a painful trial-and-error process. But, now, because RSpec displays your profile graph immediately, it’s painless.

No one likes the drudgery of complicated image processing and steep learning curves. Astronomy is supposed to be fun! With RSpec, you can go from your original image to a calibrated profile graph in just a few clicks. See a star’s spectrum in real-time at your telescope!

Click the image below to watch a one-minute video that shows RSpec in action:

Want to see what else you can do in spectroscopy? Check out our Sample Project page: link.

features

sky

• default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
• extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars
• default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects
• extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• constellations for 20+ different cultures
• images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
• realistic Milky Way
• very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
• the planets and their satellites

interface

• a powerful zoom
• time control
• multilingual interface
• fisheye projection for planetarium domes
• spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
• all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
• telescope control

visualisation

• equatorial and azimuthal grids
• star twinkling
• shooting stars
• tails of comets
• iridium flares simulation
• eclipse simulation
• supernovae and novae simulation
• 3D sceneries
• skinnable landscapes with spheric panorama projection

customizability

• plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope control and more
• ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
• add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

news

system requirements

minimal

• Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
• 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.3 or OpenGL ES 2.0
• 512 MiB RAM
• 420 MiB on disk
• Keyboard
• Mouse, Touchpad or similar pointing device

recommended

Konus Sky Explorer Software Free

• Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; Mac OS X 10.12.0 and above
• 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above
• 1 GiB RAM or more
• 1.5 GiB on disk
• Keyboard
• Mouse, Touchpad or similar pointing device

developers

Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Graphic designer: Johan Meuris, Martín Bernardi
Developer: Alexander Wolf, Guillaume Chéreau, Georg Zotti, Marcos Cardinot
Continuous Integration: Hans Lambermont
Tester: Khalid AlAjaji
and everyone else in the community.

social media

collaborate

You can learn more about Stellarium, get support and help the project from these links:

acknowledgment

If the Stellarium planetarium was helpful for your research work, the following acknowledgment would be appreciated:

This research has made use of the Stellarium planetarium

Zotti, G., Hoffmann, S. M., Wolf, A., Chéreau, F., & Chéreau, G. (2021). The Simulated Sky: Stellarium for Cultural Astronomy Research. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 6(2), 221–258. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.17822

Or you may download the BibTeX file of the paper to create another citation format.

Konus Sky Explorer Software Free

git

Konus Sky Explorer Software

The latest development snapshot of Stellarium is kept on github. If you want to compile development versions of Stellarium, this is the place to get the source code.

Konus Sky Explorer Software Downloads

Konus Sky Explorer Software Update

supporters and friends

Stellarium is produced by the efforts of the developer team, with the help and support of the following people and organisations .