Editing Stellarium (software) (section)

== History ==
In 2006, Stellarium 0.7.1 won a gold award in the Education category of the [[Les Trophées du Libre]] [[free software]] competition.<ref>{{cite web |title=The third Free Software Awards placed under the sign of the international |url=http://tropheesdulibre2006.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221013442/http://tropheesdulibre2006.org/ |archive-date=December 21, 2008 |access-date=February 16, 2009 |work=Les Trophées du Libre 2006 website |language=fr}}</ref>

A modified version of Stellarium has been used by the [[MeerKAT]] project as a virtual sky display showing where the antennae of the [[radio telescope]] are pointed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/12/12.php |title=Virtual sky display in MeerKAT control room |publisher=Ska.ac.za |access-date=June 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423154836/http://www.ska.ac.za/newsletter/issues/12/12.php |archive-date=April 23, 2012 }}</ref>

In December 2011, Stellarium was added as one of the "featured applications" in the [[Ubuntu Software Center]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://developer.ubuntu.com/2011/12/software-centre-app-picks-for-december/ |title=Software Centre app picks for December |website=Ubuntu App Developer |publisher=Developer.ubuntu.com |date=December 14, 2011 |access-date=June 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626201455/http://developer.ubuntu.com/2011/12/software-centre-app-picks-for-december/ |archive-date=June 26, 2012 }}</ref>

=== Planetarium dome projection ===
The fisheye and spherical mirror distortion features allow Stellarium to be projected onto domes.  Spherical mirror distortion is used in projection systems that use a digital [[video projector]] and a first surface convex [[spherical mirror]] to project images onto a [[dome]]. Such systems are generally cheaper than traditional [[planetarium projector]]s and [[fish-eye lens]] projectors and for that reason are used in budget and home planetarium setups where projection quality is less important.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

Various companies which build and sell digital planetarium systems use Stellarium, such as ''e-Planetarium''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-planetarium.com/stellarium.htm|title=Stellarium Planetarium Software|work=E-Planetarium website|access-date=February 15, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201071949/http://www.e-planetarium.com/stellarium.htm|archive-date=December 1, 2008}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=July 2019}}

''Digitalis Education Solutions'', which helped develop Stellarium, created a fork called [[Nightshade (astronomy software)|Nightshade]] which was specifically tailored to planetarium use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaliseducation.com/products-nightshade.html|title=Nightshade Astronomy Simulation Software|work=Digitalis Education Solutions official website|access-date=January 11, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nightshadesoftware.org|title=Nightshade Astronomy Simulator|work=Nightshade official website|access-date=January 11, 2010}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=July 2019}}

=== VirGO ===
VirGO is a Stellarium plugin, a visual browser for the [[European Southern Observatory]] (ESO) Science Archive Facility which allows astronomers to browse professional astronomical data. It is no longer supported or maintained; the last version was 1.4.5, dated January 15, 2010.<ref name="eso-virgo">{{cite web|url=http://archive.eso.org/cms/tools-documentation/visual-archive-browser.html|title=VirGO, The Visual Archive Browser|publisher=ESO Science Archive Facility|access-date=November 21, 2012}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=July 2019}}