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Gaia Sky

Name: Gaia Sky
Author: ARI/Zentrum für Astronomie Heidelberg

by ARI/Zentrum für Astronomie Heidelberg

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Rendering of Earth's surface, clouds and atmosphere

Explore the universe in 3D

Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation platform for desktop and VR that runs on Linux, Windows and macOS. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg). Explore the Solar System, the Milky Way or even the most distant galaxies of the Universe.

Changes in version 3.6.0-2

about 1 month ago

(Built about 1 month ago)

News in patch 3.6.0-2:

annotate camera files with frame rate so that playback can adjust it automatically.
camcorder play and record button inconsistent states.
state handling in the camcorder.
sleep(seconds) call also respects the camcorder FPS setting during recording.
rename some API calls, deprecate old versions.
add companion calls for camera orientation and position transitions.
orbit coordinate not working when time is before the orbit start.

News in main 3.6.0:

add OptFlowCam (Piotrowski 2024) method to interpolate between keyframes.
add B-splines as interpolation method.
separate API calls for transitions in position, orientation and time.
add smooth curves to transitions using logit and logistic sigmoid.
enable local data in the '+ Info' window.
rename 'star systems' type to 'exoplanets & star systems'.
add various useful API calls.
many bug fixes.

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This app is developed in the open by a community of volunteers, and released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0.
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Installed Size~363 MiB

Download Size214.81 MiB

Available Architecturesx86_64, aarch64

Installs21,534

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Explore the universe in 3D

Community built