There’s no need to travel far into the country, or pay for admission in order to see the starry night sky. Stellarium is essentially a personal planetarium that can be viewed directly on your computer screen.
Stellarium is a totally free and open source digital planetarium for Windows.
Unfortunately, that’s not possible everywhere- especially since light pollution is a serious problem these days. One of the most prominent ways to geek out is to grab an old fashioned telescope, sit in the dark somewhere and stargaze. It blows my mind every time I stop and think about how massive the universe truly is.
However, it is the ideal program to prepare an observation evening with naked eye, binocular, or small telescope.Since I was just a little squirt I’ve been fascinated with the stars. Stellarium should not be used for very high accurate calculation or ephemerids like eclipse predictions. Some features: - default star catalogue with over 600 thousand stars, - information about the brightest stars (spectral type, distance, etc.), - downloadable star catalogue extensions, for up to 210 million stars, - all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects, - images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way, - real time positions of the planets and their satellites, - 13 different cultures with their constellations, - artistic illustrations of the 88 Western constellations, - very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset, - 7 panoramic landscapes (more can be made or downloaded from the website), - scripting with ECMAScript, - plug-in support: Stellarium comes with 8 plug-ins by default, including: - artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database), - ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular), - Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC), - telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible). With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real-time.
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