Cultural astronomers also value the possibilities they give of simulating the skies of past times or other cultures. Modern incarnations are immensely versatile tools, mostly targeted towards the community of amateur astronomers and for knowledge transfer in transdisciplinary research. However, in recent decades, “desktop planetarium programs” running on personal computers have gained wide attention. The immersive sky simulator of the twentieth century, the optomechanical planetarium, provided new ways for representing and teaching about the sky, but the high construction and running costs meant that they have not become common. Science - Mathematics - Instruments and machines - Calculating machines - Electronic computers.Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeologyįriedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Physikalisch-Astronomische FakultätĪltai State Pedagogical University, Barnaul, RussiaĪstronomical simulation, desktop planetarium, sky culture research, virtual archaeoastronomy, Stellarium Abstractįor centuries, the rich nocturnal environment of the starry sky could be modelled only by analogue tools such as paper planispheres, atlases, globes and numerical tables. Science - Astronomy - Descriptive astronomy - Stars - Zodiac Science - Astronomy - Descriptive astronomy - Stars - Constellation figures. Science - Astronomy - Descriptive astronomy - Stars - Clusters and nebulae - Nebulae Science - Astronomy - Descriptive astronomy - Solar system - Planets. Stellarium can be used with any operating system, including Linux. Visitors will also appreciate the fact that there is an exhaustive Wiki here for general consultation. Also, the labels for constellations, stars, planets, nebulae can be turned off or on. The website for Stellarium also contains a detailed user's guide and an online forum for asking questions. A multitude of configuration tools are available, including zooming in on planets and viewing full-screen images. Users can view the sky from any location on Earth as well as any time or date, and they can rotate the view to look at specific objects at their leisure. With Stellarium, anyone with a computer can view the nighttime sky in three dimensions without stepping outside.
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