Top 4 C++ planetarium Projects

stellarium

309 6,620 10.0 C++

Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.

Project mention: Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13

Celestia

32 1,716 9.6 C++

Real-time 3D visualization of space.

Project mention: Celestia: Real-time 3D visualization of space | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13

Celestia is a rare Linux app not on Flathub, but it is available from Fedora's Flatpak repo, which in theory should be usable on any distro: https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/discussions/1988

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
OpenSpace

4 719 9.7 C++

This is the official GitHub repository for OpenSpace: an open source astrovisualization project. For instructions on how to build and run OpenSpace, see the Getting Started Guides on the wiki page at http://docs.openspaceproject.com

Project mention: Google Earth Equivalent For Space? | /r/Astronomy | 2023-12-11

If I can throw in another link, since the project is open-source, we can also find us on GitHub https://github.com/OpenSpace/OpenSpace if someone wants to contribute

Astrolog

3 150 3.7 C++

The astrology software "Astrolog", version 7.70

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).