Stellarium features a 3-dimensional sky in much the same way as if you were looking up at the sky in real time. So if you’d like to discover what’s beyond our planet, go on tours around the Solar System and the Milky Way, travel in time back to when other galaxies formed, or become a witness to the formation of other stars billions of years ago, now it’s your chance to experience it. All you have to do is to decide on a destination, set the coordinates and go. With this “virtual planetariumâ€Â, one may calculate the positions of the Sun, the Moon or other planets. It is also possible to check what the sky would look like to an observer at a different location and time zone. But one of the features that I most like is that Stellarium can display the constellations and simulate a variety of astronomical phenomena such as lunar eclipses and meteor showers.
Link: Earth and Sky
