You can also check out a free sample issue here.'Controlling a telescope' means receiving position information from the telescope and sending GOTO commands to the telescope. Click here to get these deals which only will be available for a very limited time. You can learn more on what’s available in the latest version release here.Īnd to make it easier for you to get the most extensive telescope and amateur astronomy related news, articles and reviews that are only available in the magazine pages of Astronomy Technology Today, we are offering a 1 year subscription for only $6! Or, for an even better deal, we are offering 2 years for only $9. If you want to compile development versions of Stellarium you can get the source code here. The latest development snapshot of Stellarium is hosted on GitHub. Highlights of the release include direct ASCOM support for the Telescope Control plugin on Windows, refactoring of the GUI, improvements in DSO catalog and many other improvements to the code. The community behind the free software has announced v0.19.3 has been released. A plugin is available to provide telescope control. The software offers a built-in catalogue of more than 600,000 stars and provides the ability to download additional catalogues of over 170 million stars. There is a zoom option available to simulate using a telescope or binoculars. Users can fast forward the time to track the movement of stars and other objects across the sky. Stellarium provides a real-time view of what the sky looks like from anywhere on earth.

Stellarium is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Stellarium is an open-source planetarium software which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time displaying stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and more.

Telescope control with stellarium