Celestia was ported to mobile devices in 2020, and it continues to receive updates and experimental beta versions. As of 2023, beta testing builds of version 1.7.0 are available, as well as the bugfix releases 1.6.2 and 1.6.3. In late 2016, the official Celestia forums were restored, and development restarted. The original creator of Celestia, Chris Laurel, created Fifth Star Labs after Celestia's development stopped, and started work on the widely-used iOS app Sky Guide. However, since the Celestial Matters forums went down in 2020, there have been no updates on the progress of the program. Since then, some of its development team went to work on celestia.Sci, a cosmological visualizer featuring more realistic rendering of galaxies and planets, gravitational lensing, and many other scientifically accurate enhancements. It is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License.Ĭelestia's development stopped in 2013, with the final release in 2011. Ĭelestia is available for AmigaOS 4, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android. Celestia can display objects of various scales using OpenGL. To summarize, Celestia is a scientifically accurate 3D universe simulator, that is also highly customizable. Celestia also doubles as a planetarium, but the user is not restricted to the Earth's surface, like in other planetarium software such as Stellarium. The program allows users to virtually travel through the universe and explore celestial objects that have been catalogued. AmigaOS 4, BSD, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, iOS, AndroidĬelestia is a real-time 3D astronomy software program that was created in 2001 by Chris Laurel.
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