Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the
surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any
of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets
you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters
down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto'
interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object
you want to visit.
Celestia is expandable. It comes with a large catalog of stars,
galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's
not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more
objects.
Available flavors:
lua - add Lua scripting engine (extension language support)
ok jasper@
- Besides jpg sunclock now supports both png & gif images as well.
- Moved all data files to distfiles/sunclock, some of the additional
maps have nondescriptive names (like "huge.jpg").
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer.
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL.
It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things
like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc. It shows a realistic sky in 3D,
just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates
and go.
ok steven@ kili@
the FULLPKGPATH, thus providing changes to packing-lists which shouldn't
happen, and making update more difficult.
Accordingly, bump all pkgnames with PSEUDO_FLAVORS, and provide an
update @pkgpath for the bug for most of them (left out the ones with 3
or 4 pseudo flavors for space constraints...)
