Celestia - A free three-dimensional astronomical program, Creation Chris Laurel and made available under the GNU General Public License. When Celestia version 1.0 first appeared in is available for download from the Internet, enthusiasts of space around the world have opened and quickly assessed the potential of this wonderful program.

The program, based on the catalog HIPPARCOS, allows the user to consider the objects the size of artificial satellites to complete the galaxies in three dimensions, using the technology of OpenGL. Unlike most other virtual planetarium, a user can move freely throughout the universe.

Many of us are looking at the stars in the night sky and imagined how it would be great to be in space and soar among the stars. What the astronauts saw the spaceship, when they look at our beautiful Earth, slowly rotating at the bottom? What an amazing, we could meet, if visited Saturn, making his way through his rings, the spacecraft Cassini?

Celestia - free space simulation of real time, giving a visual representation of our universe in three dimensions. Celestia was originally conceived and created Mr. Chris'om Laurel'om, a computer programmer from Seattle, WA, who in 2001 decided to write a free program to make available to everyone in the world-wide-web, the ability to manage the virtual world of our universe.

His performance and dedication have created a program is not similar to any other existing software simulator. Celestia does not limit you to the Earth's surface, as is done in many other programs. Instead, Chris provided the opportunity to travel throughout the solar system and in any place of space, at any speed, at any time and in any selected direction. If you wish, you can fly to the outer "superkorable 'to visit the stars in the Milky Way's spiral, far beyond the boundaries of our solar system or even to leave the galaxy to see a more extensive part of the universe from deep space. Chris (Chris) also provided the scientific accuracy of the program through reliable sources of dynamic astronomical charts.

When Celestia version 1.0 first appeared in is available for download from the Internet, enthusiasts of space around the world have opened and quickly assessed the potential of this wonderful program.

During the year, many talented people around the world, united Chris'om, united their efforts to make Celestia is not just a space simulator with good graphics, and better capable of reproducing a virtual universe in great detail, rivaling the quality of visualization, with Hollywood movies.
They succeeded. By the time of writing this guide, more than 6,600 people are members of the community forum Celestia. More than 3 million people have downloaded this program for use at home or at school. Its use in homes, schools and government agencies worldwide. The list growing daily and includes talented artists, computer programmers, astronomers, astrophysicists, the director of a planetarium, animators, engineers, teachers and students, civil servants, private businessmen and ordinary citizens from more than 25 countries. Together they created a world of space, which consists not only of the main program Celestia, but more than 18 gigabytes of add-ons and additions, giving Celestia vital credibility.

Platform: Windows (98], Windows (2000), Windows (XP), Windows (Vista), Windows (7)
System requirements: Processor: 1 GHz Memory: 256 MB Video Card: 128MB
Web Developer: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Developer: Celestia Development Team
Language: English
Year: 2009
Genre: Astronomy
Size: 37.34 mb