
The app will adjust the view taking into account the location and time. Stellarium puts on your desktop a sky map that highlights stars, planets, and nebulas, featuring labels with their names, satellites with their trajectory, constellations lines, and associated art. The app is useful as a learning/teaching tool, but it also eliminates technical problems such as light pollution, clouds, or bad weather. Stellarium must be an epiphany for astronomy aficionados and educated users alike.

Stellarium is a realistic, open source education tool that puts a virtual planetarium on your desktop and helps you identify celestial objects, constellations, and much more.

Star gazing is an amazing activity, but things get a lot more interesting when you actually know what you are looking at.
