On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Yogesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stellarium seems to be very good. But why nightshade ? What disadvantages > of > Stellarium does it aim to overcome ? Any idea? > > Stellarium is more focused for the desktop use. Though it has features of a fish eye transformation which helps in projection into a planetarium dome (through a spherical mirror), it does not concentrate on that feature. Nightshade is primarily focusing on usage in planetariums (big and small). Chennai's Birla planetarium is still using a mechanical star projector. They do have a small secondary digital projector, but I don't know what software they use. Arun -- Arun Venkataswamy http://arun289.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
