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Stellarium for Mac provides accurate night sky data that can be used by professional and amateur astronomers alike. In fact, this is a planetarium for your computer. The application shows a realistic sky in 3D; just like what you see in a telescope.

Key features include:

• Default directory of over 600,000 stars (additional directories with over 210 million stars).
• Asterisms and constellation illustrations.
• Constellations for 20+ different cultures.
• Images of nebulae (complete Messier catalogue).
• Planets and their satellites.
• Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.
• Realistic Milky Way.

Stellarium for Mac has a great interface that users of all levels can access. It comes with powerful zoom function, time control, fisheye projection for planetarium domes, advanced keyboard control and telescope control. Stellarium for Mac also comes with plugin management, so you can add features such as artificial satellites, eye simulation, and telescope configuration. You can also add new Solar System objects to your database from Internet resources.

Looking for a Windows version of Stellarium for Mac? Download here