SPACECRAFTER
: FREE and OPEN SOURCE with COMMERCIAL ADD-ONS
Our recommended sky simulator, made by
planetarians for planetarians. Using Vulkan libraries and because of
that, good recent graphic card required. It plays all kind of videos
(Fulldome and rectangular with the free version and VR with add-on).
Projection mode: Fisheye STELLARIUM
: FREE and OPEN SOURCE
Working for all machines but not
perfectly suited
for planetarium usage. It can't play videos.
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Spherical Mirror STELLARIUM
360 : FREE and OPEN SOURCE
Maybe not much practical for talking
about the sky of tonite but very
well done for navigating outside of the solar system and the Galaxy.
Possible to switch to STEREOSCOPIC mode.
A lot of scripts, pictures and textures
included in this planetarium
software. Better with a network connection. I hope it is
more stable now.
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Spherical Mirror SPACE ENGINE :
FREE
with COMMERCIAL ADD-ONS
Awesome software permitting complete
freedom in the Universe and lots
of possibilities with cut edge graphical technology. Possible to record
your travel in fulldome video. It requires the best machine to
provide its full potential.
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Spherical Mirror OPEN
SPACE
: FREE and OPEN SOURCE
It integrates a lot of functionnalities
and accurate data to provide
awesome presentations. Maybe not that easy to manipulate.
Projection mode: Fisheye GAIA SKY : FREE and OPEN
SOURCE
Integrates the GAIA catalog of stars
and draw it
in Fulldome. Includes the solar system as well.
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Spherical Mirror CELESTIA : FREE and OPEN
SOURCE
The good old Celestia software with
features permitting to use it in some planetariums. Especially
appreciated for spherical mirror users running on MacOS. Not sure to
get this version run on Windows, but originally it was possible...
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Spherical Mirror SHIRA PLAYER :
COMMERCIAL
A software agregating STELLARIUM and
MITAKA
including also a video player and command interface with tablet.
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Spherical Mirror - Multi Projectors SKY
EXPLORER : COMMERCIAL
RSA Cosmos professionnal software for
high end planetariums.
SkySkan professionnal software for high
end planetariums. The first digital software for planetariums,
originated in 1997 at Pleumeur Bodou. Can be used with fisheye, multi
projectors and VR for production.
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Multi Projectors UNIVIEW : COMMERCIAL
SCISS
professionnal software for high end
planetariums. It has been bought by ZEISS.
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Multi Projectors NIGHTSHADE NG : COMMERCIAL
Digitalis Education professionnal
software for
their planetariums.
Projection mode: Fisheye
- Bi Projectors STARRY NIGHT : COMMERCIAL
Digital Starlab professionnal software
for
their planetariums.
