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Celestia: Real-time 3D visualization of space (github.com/celestiaproject)
117 points by tildef on Jan 13, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


I don't know why World Wide Telescope doesn't get more love: https://worldwidetelescope.org/download/


Celestia is a rare Linux app not on Flathub, but it is available from Fedora's Flatpak repo, which in theory should be usable on any distro: https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/discussions/1988


You can enhance the base version with extras from https://celestiaproject.space/addons.html.

There are high-resolution textures for Solar system objects, and even mythical stuff from Star Trek.


I have a hobby project to move Celestia to Web and uses its data files

https://celestiary.github.io/


Celestia is good but if you're willing to leave the free software space you might enjoy "Space Engine" more.


Nice, but Windows only.


I'm using it as a 'screen saver' for my second monitor when i don't need it.


Does this run on VR/Oculus?


Stellarium recently released an alpha on Oculus

https://stellarium-labs.com/stellarium-vr/




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