If you like astronomy and you don’t have the money to afford a telescope or the light pollution in your city is just too much, you’re in luck; Stellarium, an open source program allows you to view the heavens in the comfort of your home. Download the program and try it for yourself.
Description via author’s site: ‘Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. 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.’
Article posted on 03 21st, 2006
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