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Alienorum 1.0

Iapetus 20260827 054647

The initial formal release of our cross-platform planetarium / space / world building software, including the following features:

  • Internal catalog of over 130,000 stars;
  • Includes definitions for solar system planets, moons, asteroids, and comets;
  • Realtime 3D Positions of stars, including proper motions, and of orbiting bodies with full orbital parameters;
  • OpenGL rendering;
  • Produces views of sky and space from anywhere inside or outside our solar system, including views from satellites and views from the surfaces of other planets, moons, asteroids, and exoplanets;
  • Spaceflight feature with time dilation and a warp speed mode, coupled with tracking ability to facilitate flybys of moons, planets, stars, star clusters, and galaxies;
  • Professional ephemerides for accurate (within a few minutes) timing of solar and lunar eclipses;
  • Automatic sync of exoplanet data from NASA's Exoplanet Archive*;
  • Automatic sync of artificial satellite orbits from NORAD via CelesTrak*;
  • Spaceship mode with selectable local, ecliptic, ICRF, and galactic frames;
  • Latitude and longitude controls, with preset Earth cities, time zones, and points of interest on the Moon and on other planets.
  • Editing of celestial objects including fictional texture, bump, and ring generation, atmospheric composition, and estimated surface temperatures/pressures;
  • Full-sky map and sun clock modes;
  • Snapshot functionality;
  • Menu system, easily toggled by pressing F2, that displays keyboard shortcuts for all menu items;
  • Red light mode for preserving dark adapted vision;
  • White background mode for printing of saved snapshots;
  • A rich set of themes named after constellations;
  • Compatibility with Celestia's SSC format* for loading community-made fictional universes.
Earth 20260827 045132 tau Cet h 20260827 055431 Janssen 20260827 060112 Galileo 20260827 060153 Harriot 20260827 060236 Lipperhey 20260827 060319 RINGSAT 1 20260827 194905 Rho 1 Cancri 20260827 060034 Earth 19960328 131451 Earth 19960328 131552

*Alienorum is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with NASA, NORAD, CelesTrak, or the Celestia project. 'Celestia' is a trademark of its respective owners. Support for .ssc files is provided for compatibility purposes only.

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