Cosmonium is a free open source application for XNUMXD astronomy and space exploration
If you are enchanted with the planets and stars and do not have a telescope you can easily observe and learn about them through the Cosmonium. You can learn the mysteries of Space, explore galaxies far from the comfort of your own home.
Cosmonium is an open source free software based on the (now defunct) Celestia project to render the whole world of astronomy in 3D. With 200MB download file it takes about 527MB space to install. You will need one card graphics that support OpenGL 2.1+. If your computer can handle it and you have the storage space, you can try HD and UHD textures. These textures take about 1,8 GB each to download.
The home screen after installing it shows a view of the Earth. Displays in the upper left corner the parameters of the selected celestial object such as name, the altitude, the radius, while the frame rate is displayed on the opposite edge of the window.
Cosmonium uses the current time to view the day / night of the earth, ie the side of the earth that is far from the sun will look dark. And yes, you can rotate it to 360 ° view and that also works with galactic projection.
You can see other planets and stars. Press Enter and search for an item, e.g. Mars. Press enter again and his stats appear in the top left corner, press it key G to go to planet. This includes a nice animation that moves and zooms the object.
Cosmonium is an application written in Python, available for Linux, macOS and Windows. download from here.
