PlanetariumVR

PlanetariumVR is a virtual-reality planetarium for exploring the night sky and learning the positions of stars and deep-sky objects. You can point to objects in the sky to get information, study constellations and prepare astronomical observations without relying on a GoTo mount.

Explore the sky

The planetarium includes 41,375 stars of apparent magnitude below 8, the Solar system’s planets and the Moon, and all 88 constellations. You can view the Equatorial and Azimuthal grids, the Ecliptic Plane and the Galactic Plane, and adjust the location, time and Bortle Scale effect.

Its deep-sky object catalogs include Messier (110), Caldwell (109), Herschel 400 (400), NGC (7,840), IC (5,386), Arp (338) and Sharpless-2 (313). Images from several sky surveys are available:

• Original Digitized Sky Survey
• 2nd Digitized Sky Survey (Red)
• 2nd Digitized Sky Survey (Blue)
• 2nd Digitized Sky Survey-Near Infrared
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer 1, 2, 3 and 4

Challenges and gallery

Messier Challenge teaches the positions of all 110 objects in the Messier catalog, while Star Challenge covers 103 bright stars. Gallery mode lets you explore hundreds of images of deep-sky objects, including nebulae and galaxies.

Star Sweeper is a Minesweeper-like game played inside a giant sphere in virtual reality beneath the night sky.

Music

A relaxing playlist features music by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, G. Mahler, A. Dvorak, M. Mussorgsky, M. Ravel and I. Stravinsky.