Look to the stars
For a true planetarium experience on your computer, check out cross-platform Stellarium. The features are, well, stellar: a catalog of more than 600,000 stars that additional modules can bring up to 210 million, constellations for 10 different cultures, a realistic Milky Way and dawn and dusk views, and fish-eye projection for planetarium domes, to name a few. Read more
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