Celestia [SEP] license
, Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. Celestia is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License.
There are three graphical front-ends available: GLUT, GTK+ or Qt.
Celestia's final update came in 2011. Since then, some of its development team have gone to work on Celestia.sci, a cosmological visualizer.
In late 2016, the official Celestia forums were restored, and development of update 1.7.0 began.
Functions.
Celestia displays the Hipparcos Catalogue (HIP) of
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