Stellarium
Stellarium is an interactive map of the sky which allows you to “look” at the stars and the sky just like with a telescope. A bit like GoogleEarth for the sky. It’s packed full of features:
- more than 210 million stars
- constellations and illustrations of constellations for more than 20 different cultures
- realistic Milky Way
- eclipses, sunrise and sunset
- the planets and their satellites
- comets
- images of weather galls (complete Messier catalogue)
- supernovae
- customisability
and a hundred other things. Just download and install. It will ask you for your preferred language during install:
But if you missed that, just go to the settings and pick Gaelic:
Not even a restart required!