celestia

Real-time visual space simulation
  http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
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  16 reviews



Celestia is a free 3d astronomy program. based on the hipparcos catalogue, it allows users to display objects ranging in scale from artificial satellites to entire galaxies in three dimensions using opengl. unlike most planetarium software, the user is free to travel about the universe.

this is a dummy package that selects at least one frontend for celestia.
Latest reviews
5
JE77 10 months ago

Very Good!

5
pmandic 9 years ago

You can make a space shooter with LUA out of this!

5
isomage 10 years ago

An amazing innovation!

4
Kain 10 years ago

Stellarium is more fun if all you want is planetarium software, but you can do a lot of really cool things with this.

5
xtra5 11 years ago

now i have telescope

5
thefclef777 11 years ago

great app to mess around on :P

5
Thorvald27600 12 years ago

Note: Pour avoir les textures de tous les corps célestes connus, il suffit d'installer les paquets "non-free"... Et après, que du bonheur.

4
dinosb 12 years ago

Great piece of software!

5
radial 12 years ago

Very entertaining and very informative! Try it :)

5
cobra243 13 years ago

nice work, keep it up

3
JarlArntzen 13 years ago

It's pretty good but why do the bookmarked locations start zoomed so far out? When selecting earth, you have to zoom in more than 20 AUs (lots of mousewheel scrolling). Didn't this also have decent textures for the various planets as well as a nice Gnome UI?

4
guv999 13 years ago

Good stuff!

4
mikefreeman 14 years ago

Always loved this program! But since I've switched to Mint, I can't get the GTK version (which I prefer) to run. The KDE version works well enough, though.

5
Bogeyman 14 years ago

I love space and stuff and this is a brilloiant tool for the kind of stuff I do.

5
iceblade 14 years ago

fantastic software that is very expandable and informative. you'll learn things about the solar system you never knew. a must have

5
Alexio 14 years ago

Outstanding educational tool for astronomy and astrophysics. Good scripting language for automation; extendable and genuinely entertaining.