Tool Name: Stellarium

About the Tool:

• Stellarium is a free open source planetarium software that shows a realistic sky in
3D.
• It allows you to explore the night sky from any location on earth, at any time of
the year.
• You can see stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, asteroids, comets, satellites, and
more.

Mapping Tool with Subject:

• Stellarium can be linked to both Science and Social Science subjects, where
students study about our universe. It can also be used as a beyond curriculum
tool to get students excited about astronomy.
Tool Interface:
⮚Introduction
⮚Tool Interface
⮚Solar & Lunar Eclipse
⮚Mobile App
Applications of Tool/ Practical uses of the
tool

• Students can not just see the sky & its objects in the chart/text book
but can visualize & observe the object movements through the tool.
• Student will experience the astronomy concepts instead of just
imagining them.
Activities/projects

• Identify stars, planets, constellations in that day’s night sky

• Observe the Solar Eclipse
• Observe the Lunar Eclipse

Try both Web and Mobile version

Summary
• Tool Name: Stellarium
• Category: Astronomy
• Subject that can be linked: Science/Social Science
• No. of Self Learning Videos: 11
• No. of Hours to self learn the Tool: 3 Hours