StarStrider software offers real-time 3D simulations of planets, satellites, galaxies, nebulas, and thousands of stars. Utilizing 3D technology, it provides an immersive planetarium experience for users.
If you're looking for a comprehensive, fully three-dimensional planetarium and starship software, then look no further than StarStrider. With this software, you can not only explore the planets and moons of our solar system, but also hundreds of thousands of other stars, spectacular galaxies, clusters, nebulae, and the Milky Way.
But that's not all. StarStrider also offers a range of optional visual effects, such as lens flares, camera burn-out, and diffraction crosses, to give you the most realistic experience possible. Additionally, you can choose to enable relativistic space-time effects like aberration and Doppler shift for a true Einsteinian universe exploration.
StarStrider includes the full Hipparcos database of 118,218 stars, plus an optional database of 2 million more stars, with true 3D-positions. You can utilize several star rendering modes, from simple points to saturated Gauss bells with diffraction crosses, and view the visible extent when you get close to a star. To navigate through space, you can choose to use a joystick or game pad controller but keyboard and mouse are also supported.
Traveling to stars is easy - just double-click on a star to travel to it! StarStrider also offers a large selection of galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae, compiled from a variety of catalogues.
For advanced users, StarStrider includes a scripting engine and StarLua extension language, so you can customize your experience even further. The software is scientifically accurate and created by both an astronomer and a software engineer, both with a background in physics.
Overall, StarStrider offers a highly realistic rendering of space and everything in it. It is the perfect software for anyone interested in exploring the universe from the comfort of their own computer.
But that's not all. StarStrider also offers a range of optional visual effects, such as lens flares, camera burn-out, and diffraction crosses, to give you the most realistic experience possible. Additionally, you can choose to enable relativistic space-time effects like aberration and Doppler shift for a true Einsteinian universe exploration.
StarStrider includes the full Hipparcos database of 118,218 stars, plus an optional database of 2 million more stars, with true 3D-positions. You can utilize several star rendering modes, from simple points to saturated Gauss bells with diffraction crosses, and view the visible extent when you get close to a star. To navigate through space, you can choose to use a joystick or game pad controller but keyboard and mouse are also supported.
Traveling to stars is easy - just double-click on a star to travel to it! StarStrider also offers a large selection of galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae, compiled from a variety of catalogues.
For advanced users, StarStrider includes a scripting engine and StarLua extension language, so you can customize your experience even further. The software is scientifically accurate and created by both an astronomer and a software engineer, both with a background in physics.
Overall, StarStrider offers a highly realistic rendering of space and everything in it. It is the perfect software for anyone interested in exploring the universe from the comfort of their own computer.
What's New
Version 2.8.7: Support for SBS 3D and AMD HD3D stereoscopic modes.