Stellarium Portable the popular Stellarium astronomy program packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app so you can view the stars on the go. This release updates Stellarium to the latest version. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's open source and completely free.

Stellarium Portable is a free, open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars, or a telescope. You can view the planets and gaze at the stars in stunning detail. Stellarium includes vivid illustrations of the constellations and a theatrical display of ravishing nebulae and galaxies. With Stellarium Portable, you can transform any computer into a stargazing centerpiece. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

FEATURES

- Sky
* default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
* extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
* asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
* constellations for twelve different cultures
* images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
* realistic Milky Way
* very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
* the planets and their satellites
- Interface
* a powerful zoom
* time control
* multilingual interface
* fisheye projection for planetarium domes
* spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
* all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
* telescope control
- Visualisation
* a powerful zoom
* time control
* multilingual interface
* fisheye projection for planetarium domes
* spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
* all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
* telescope control
- Customizability
* plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
* ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...
* add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

NOTE:
In addition to those in the assembly, are available for 5 star catalog of new parts, totaling 17 MB of hard disk. Number of stars: 7.7 million, a range of magnitudes: 12 - 13.5.
You can install them to see more stars. To do this, go to: Configuration - Service - Upgrades catalog stars. Next, the program will perform all by herself.

July 19th, 2014. Stellarium 0.13.0 is available
This version based on Qt 5 and has new modulated core, and new features (examples: normal mapping, comet tails) and fixes for 115 bugs, includes:
* New modulated core
* Refactored shadows and introducing the normal mapping
* Sporadic meteors and meteors has the colors now
* Comet tails rendering
* New translatable strings and new textures
* New plugin: Equation of Time - provides solution for Equation of Time
* New plugin: Field of View - provides shortcuts for quick changes field of view
* New plugin: Navigational Stars - marks 58 navigational stars on the sky
* New plugin: Pointer Coordinates - shows the coordinates of the mouse pointer
* New plugin: Meteor Showers - provides visualization of meteor showers
* New version of the Satellites plugin: introduces star-like satellites and bug fixes
* New version of the Exoplanets plugin: displaying of the potential habitable exoplanets; improvements for performance and code refactoring
* New version of the Angle Measure plugin: displaying of the position angle
* New version of the Quasars plugin: improvements for performance; added marker_color parameter
* New version of the Pulsars plugin: improvements for performance; display pulsars with glitches; setting color for marker for different types of the pulsars
* New versions of the Compass Marks, Oculars, Historical Supernovae, Observability analysis and Bright Novae plugins: bug fixing, code refactoring and improvements
* There have also been a large number of bug fixes and serious performance improvements
* We have updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, we highly recommended reset the settings when you will install the new version (you can choose required points in the installer).

System Requirements
- minimal
* Linux/Unix; Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8; 64-bit Mac OS X 10.6.8 or greater
* 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 1.2
* 256 MiB RAM
* 120 MiB on disk
- recommended
* Linux/Unix; Windows XP/Vista/7/8; 64-bit OS X 10.7.0 or greater
* 3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 2.1 or greater
* 1 GiB RAM or more
* 1.5 GiB on disk