stellarium

Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

https://github.com/stellarium/stellarium

Science Score: 49.0%

This score indicates how likely this project is to be science-related based on various indicators:

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  • DOI references
    Found 8 DOI reference(s) in README
  • Academic publication links
  • Committers with academic emails
    9 of 221 committers (4.1%) from academic institutions
  • Institutional organization owner
  • JOSS paper metadata
  • Scientific vocabulary similarity
    Low similarity (14.2%) to scientific vocabulary

Keywords

astronomy c c-plus-plus planetarium qt5 qt6 science sky stars stellarium universe

Keywords from Contributors

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Repository

Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

Basic Info
  • Host: GitHub
  • Owner: Stellarium
  • License: gpl-2.0
  • Language: C++
  • Default Branch: master
  • Homepage: https://stellarium.org
  • Size: 4.96 GB
Statistics
  • Stars: 8,950
  • Watchers: 150
  • Forks: 927
  • Open Issues: 416
  • Releases: 64
Topics
astronomy c c-plus-plus planetarium qt5 qt6 science sky stars stellarium universe
Created almost 12 years ago · Last pushed 6 months ago
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README.md

Stellarium

GitHub release GitHub Release Date Github All Releases Backers and sponsors CI Build status Coverage Status CodeFactor DOI:10.1558/jsa.17822 DOI:10.5281/zenodo.8377210

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

If you are new to Stellarium, go to www.stellarium.org for loads of additional information.

Installation Instructions & Quick Start

Please refer to the User Guide, Getting Started section.

Get & build the code

See instructions to building Stellarium from source code.

Full References and Credits

See the full credit file.

Contributing to Stellarium

See the contributing guideline.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute! List of contributors on Github (code contributors) and on Open Collective page (financial contributors).

Our backers & sponsors

Thank you to all our backers and sponsors! Become a backer or sponsor.

Code Signing

Windows packages of this program uses free code signing provided by SignPath.io, and a free code signing certificate by the SignPath Foundation

SAST Tools

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Owner

  • Name: Stellarium
  • Login: Stellarium
  • Kind: organization
  • Email: stellarium@googlegroups.com

A realistic, real-time 3D simulation of the night sky.

Committers

Last synced: 9 months ago

All Time
  • Total Commits: 31,296
  • Total Committers: 221
  • Avg Commits per committer: 141.611
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.709
Past Year
  • Commits: 4,885
  • Committers: 19
  • Avg Commits per committer: 257.105
  • Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.201
Top Committers
Name Email Commits
transifex-integration[bot] 4****] 9,121
Alexander Wolf a****f@g****m 8,450
Fabien Chereau f****u@g****m 3,110
Georg Zotti G****i@u****t 2,659
Launchpad Translations 1,962
Ruslan Kabatsayev b****1@g****m 654
Matthew Gates m****2@g****m 643
Bogdan Marinov b****4@g****m 602
Rob Spearman r****b@d****m 482
Marcos Cardinot m****t@g****m 378
Johannes Gajdosik g****k@g****m 366
Guillaume Chereau g****e@n****m 351
Florian Schaukowitsch f****h@s****t 349
Ferdinand Majerech k****p@g****m 337
Timothy Reaves t****s@s****m 190
Susanne M Hoffmann 6****f 159
Tony Furr t****r@o****u 99
Eleni Maria Stea e****t@g****m 81
sunshuwei 3****i 72
arya-s a****a@g****m 62
toshaevil t****l@g****m 56
Diego Marcos d****s@g****m 51
Johan Meuris j****s@g****m 51
Worachate Boonplod 4****1 50
Teresa Huertas t****s@g****m 50
Andras Mohari a****i@g****m 43
J.L.Canales j****o@g****m 34
Ivan Marti-Vidal i****l@g****m 34
Nicolas Martignoni n****s@m****t 33
Henry Leung h****g@g****m 32
and 191 more...

Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time
  • Total issues: 791
  • Total pull requests: 408
  • Average time to close issues: 9 months
  • Average time to close pull requests: 23 days
  • Total issue authors: 354
  • Total pull request authors: 55
  • Average comments per issue: 5.59
  • Average comments per pull request: 10.31
  • Merged pull requests: 308
  • Bot issues: 1
  • Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
  • Issues: 300
  • Pull requests: 241
  • Average time to close issues: 13 days
  • Average time to close pull requests: 6 days
  • Issue authors: 142
  • Pull request authors: 27
  • Average comments per issue: 2.92
  • Average comments per pull request: 8.41
  • Merged pull requests: 184
  • Bot issues: 0
  • Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
  • alex-w (88)
  • axd1967 (62)
  • 3domennotry (53)
  • Atque (52)
  • gzotti (35)
  • 10110111 (30)
  • sunshuwei (14)
  • ilkant (11)
  • freebrowser1 (9)
  • stanleypmullinz (8)
  • kajaji (7)
  • ultrapre (7)
  • sushoff (7)
  • testori1972 (6)
  • worachate001 (5)
Pull Request Authors
  • 10110111 (102)
  • gzotti (62)
  • alex-w (62)
  • henrysky (44)
  • sunshuwei (25)
  • luzpaz (14)
  • ultrapre (13)
  • hmartinez82 (6)
  • vvasuki (5)
  • Jonas-Persson-NTNU (4)
  • huntflex (4)
  • twaclaw (4)
  • jmeyers314 (4)
  • martignoni (4)
  • sushoff (4)
Top Labels
Issue Labels
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Pull Request Labels
purpose: cultural astronomy (68) enhancement (52) state: published (30) subsystem: skycultures (30) importance: medium (26) feature (23) data (22) subsystem: catalogs (19) infrastructure (18) has conflicts (17) subsystem: plugins (12) documentation (9) subsystem: gui (9) os: windows (7) dependencies (7) help wanted (6) importance: low (6) importance: high (5) description (5) state: outdated (5) os: linux (5) subsystem: astrocalc (4) qt (4) purpose: planetarium (4) didactic (3) bug (3) os: bsd (3) purpose: interoperability (2) community (2) hw: telescope (2)