The GUI of the program has been improved.

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It should be noted that the use of the program in a dark environment is recommended, as well as the use of a projector to enlarge the panorama and simulate realism. Other options included in Stellarium are: an 'artistic' display with designs of the constellations, an equatorial plane to follow the movement of the celestial bodies. It has the option of taking the latitude and longitude of any place on the planet, which allows us to appreciate how the stars are observed in different parts of the world. It also allows us to simulates astronomical phenomenasuch as meteor showers and lunar and solar eclipses. It also has a catalog of more than 600.000 stars that we can expand by incorporating other catalogs available from its official website. Within the characteristics of Stellarium, this allows us to calculate the position of the Sun, Moon, planets, constellations and stars. Stellarium is a free software program written in C and C ++, this software allows us to simulate a planetarium on our computer, Stellarium is available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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