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It provides an accurate graphical representation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars (with additional addons), 13,000 deep sky objects, constellations from different cultures, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, satellites, and supernovae.
A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android, iOS, and Symbian as a paid version, being developed by Noctua Software. These have a limited functionality, lacking some features of the desktop version. All versions use OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time. [citation needed]
A celestial map by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit, 1670. A star chart is a celestial map of the night sky with astronomical objects laid out on a grid system. They are used to identify and locate constellations, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and planets. [1] They have been used for human navigation since time immemorial. [2]
The STARS real-time star tracking software operates on an image from EBEX 2012, a high-altitude balloon-borne cosmology experiment launched from Antarctica on 2012-12-29. A star tracker is an optical device that measures the positions of stars using photocells or a camera. [1]
From 11 July till 18 July 2019, the whole constellation experienced an "unexplained" signal outage [76] [77] with all active satellites showing "NOT USABLE" status on the Galileo status page. [78] The cause of the incident was an equipment malfunction in the Galileo ground infrastructure that affected the calculation of time and orbit ...
Star Maps from Ian Ridpath's Star Tales website. The Mag-7 Star Atlas Project; Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web; Felice Stoppa's ATLAS COELESTIS, an extensive collection of 51 star maps and other astronomy related books stored as a multitude of images. Monthly star maps for every location on Earth Archived 2007-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
To get these personalized features, first turn on the location settings for your device, then allow the AOL app or a mobile browser (like Firefox or Chrome) access to your current location. 1.From your home screen, tap Settings. 2. Tap Apps. 3. Tap an app. 4. Tap Permissions. 5. Tap the Toggle button next to "Location" to enable to disable. 6.
Sky-Map.org (or WikiSky.org) is a wiki and interactive sky map that covers over half a billion known celestial bodies. [1] WikiSky is designed, in part, as a wiki.Users can edit information about different stars by writing articles, adding Internet links, uploading images, or creating a special interest group for a specific task.