{"slug": "stellarium", "name": "Stellarium", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 7, "warners": 0, "score": 5.063, "rising": 0.69, "first": "2025-11-30", "latest": "2026-09-30", "why": "These are also available in the excellent Stellarium software", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "These are also available in the excellent Stellarium software", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "stellarium-web.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://stellarium.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Stellarium"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798468753, "item_id": 49904297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904297", "by": "defrost", "date": "2026-09-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Both Celestia and Stellarium have \"open data\" file formats", "excerpt": "> and the download page looks like this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ The page that states \"Please do not download Celestia from this repository. This repository has been abandoned, and the new source and website are here and here, respectively.\" for the past four years ? Try: https://celestiaproject.space/download.html and https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia for version 1.6.4 Both Celestia and ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites"}, {"id": 793223328, "item_id": 49576458, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576458", "by": "srean", "date": "2026-09-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Try stellarium", "excerpt": "Try stellarium https://stellarium-web.org/ or the app.", "context": "", "use_case": "Star map and planetarium", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sky Map 2000 \u2013 Star Atlas and Planetarium"}, {"id": 777902256, "item_id": 48618891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618891", "by": "srean", "date": "2026-06-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "An well established alternative to compare against would be Stellarium mobile version.", "excerpt": "An well established alternative to compare against would be Stellarium mobile version. Stellarium n bike version is an app, not a web page and the best way to get it is indeed through play/app store. I don't think any of those are bad things. There is a web version of Stellarium too. https://stellarium-web.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "sky atlas / stargazing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cosmodial Sky Atlas"}, {"id": 776161168, "item_id": 48510073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510073", "by": "flipflipper", "date": "2026-06-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "why not point people to use the actively maintained project instead", "excerpt": "Im not a LLM / vibe code hater (in fact a big user) but I wonder are these people just not looking for an existing solution or do they want their own bespoke version for access to some internals and to (kind of?) learn the high level of what goes into these projects. If its the former, people are wasting their own time, money and energy when spending a similar amount of time searching vs prompting might yield better ", "context": "", "use_case": "sky atlas", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cosmodial Sky Atlas"}, {"id": 752398528, "item_id": 47024908, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024908", "by": "zokier", "date": "2026-02-15", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These are also available in the excellent Stellarium software", "excerpt": "These are also available in the excellent Stellarium software: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-skycultures/blob/master/western_rey/description.md", "context": "", "use_case": "Planetarium / night sky viewing", "switched_from": "", "story": "A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["astronomy", "star map and planetarium", "sky atlas / stargazing", "sky atlas", "planetarium / night sky viewing", "planetarium / sky simulation"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898778", "title": "Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524469", "title": "Show HN: Newton's Orchard \u2013 Browser-based space/gravity playground", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548596", "title": "Sky Map 2000 \u2013 Star Atlas and Planetarium", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569309", "title": "Cosmodial Sky Atlas", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507571", "title": "Cosmodial Sky Atlas", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990888", "title": "A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 798468753, "item_id": 49904297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904297", "by": "defrost", "date": "2026-09-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Both Celestia and Stellarium have \"open data\" file formats", "excerpt": "> and the download page looks like this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ The page that states \"Please do not download Celestia from this repository. This repository has been abandoned, and the new source and website are here and here, respectively.\" for the past four years ? Try: https://celestiaproject.space/download.html and https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia for version 1.6.4 Both Celestia and ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites"}, {"id": 793329616, "item_id": 49583101, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583101", "by": "stan-ely", "date": "2026-09-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've use those maybe a decade or so ago when I was in school.", "excerpt": "It looks on partiy with stellarium and likes for a noob. I've use those maybe a decade or so ago when I was in school. Never, got into much astronomy, maybe I can give it a try now with some walkthrough by claude", "context": "", "use_case": "astronomy", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Newton's Orchard \u2013 Browser-based space/gravity playground"}, {"id": 793223328, "item_id": 49576458, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576458", "by": "srean", "date": "2026-09-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Try stellarium", "excerpt": "Try stellarium https://stellarium-web.org/ or the app.", "context": "", "use_case": "Star map and planetarium", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sky Map 2000 \u2013 Star Atlas and Planetarium"}, {"id": 777902256, "item_id": 48618891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618891", "by": "srean", "date": "2026-06-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "An well established alternative to compare against would be Stellarium mobile version.", "excerpt": "An well established alternative to compare against would be Stellarium mobile version. Stellarium n bike version is an app, not a web page and the best way to get it is indeed through play/app store. I don't think any of those are bad things. There is a web version of Stellarium too. https://stellarium-web.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "sky atlas / stargazing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cosmodial Sky Atlas"}, {"id": 776161168, "item_id": 48510073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510073", "by": "flipflipper", "date": "2026-06-12", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "why not point people to use the actively maintained project instead", "excerpt": "Im not a LLM / vibe code hater (in fact a big user) but I wonder are these people just not looking for an existing solution or do they want their own bespoke version for access to some internals and to (kind of?) learn the high level of what goes into these projects. If its the former, people are wasting their own time, money and energy when spending a similar amount of time searching vs prompting might yield better ", "context": "", "use_case": "sky atlas", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cosmodial Sky Atlas"}, {"id": 752398528, "item_id": 47024908, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024908", "by": "zokier", "date": "2026-02-15", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These are also available in the excellent Stellarium software", "excerpt": "These are also available in the excellent Stellarium software: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-skycultures/blob/master/western_rey/description.md", "context": "", "use_case": "Planetarium / night sky viewing", "switched_from": "", "story": "A practical guide to observing the night sky for real skies and real equipment"}, {"id": 751801488, "item_id": 46987593, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987593", "by": "nraynaud", "date": "2026-02-12", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Sorry that was in French https://peuplesautochtones.wordpress.com/2022/05/21/sites-archeologiques-olmeques-tres-zapotes/ \u201cIl a \u00e9t\u00e9 propos\u00e9 qu\u2019elle puisse comm\u00e9morer une \u00e9clipse lunaire qui a pr\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 une \u00e9clipse solaire de deux semaines.\u201d >\u201dIt was proposed that it could commemorate a lunar eclipse preceding a solar eclipse by two weeks\u201d I was very lazy in my search, so I didn\u2019t check anything about this page.", "context": "", "use_case": "Planetarium / sky simulation", "switched_from": "", "story": "The missing digit of Stela C"}, {"id": 737537952, "item_id": 46096122, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096122", "by": "fhars", "date": "2025-11-30", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Like nightmode in Stellarium", "excerpt": "Like nightmode in Stellarium: https://www.stellarium-labs.com/blog/nightmode/", "context": "", "use_case": "Planetarium night mode", "switched_from": "", "story": "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"}]}