Programmes Available with MirrorDome

Stellarium

The popular digital orrery, Stellarium has been 'warped' to make it suitable for projection on the mirror dome. The MirrorDome system also includes software updates as this product develops and evolves. Stellarium is a planetarium package that will let you view the sky from any time or position on earth.

Celestia

A real-time 3D space simulation featuring a database of over 100,000 stars, nearly 100 solar system objects, and a complete catalogue of extrasolar planets. Celestia is like jumping in a virtual space ship which allows you view realistic models of the solar planets as well as travel throughout the universe.

(Stellarium and Celestia are Open Source programmes distributed under the Gnu Public License. These versions have been optimized for the MirrorDome system.)

MDPlayer

A version of the Apple QuickTime player that plays any normal fisheye content, and warps the image on the fly to create the correct projection in the MirrorDome. Any fisheye content that works with the QuickTime Player (movies, images, VR Panoramics and Quartz Compositions) will work with MDPlayer.

Simulations

A collection of cutting edge science simulation datasets that can be used to explain advanced concepts in astronomy. Developed by researchers at Swinburne's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing.

Solar

Solar is a solar system simulator that allows you to interactively explore and explain all the aspects of the solar system.

Panodome

Projects panoramic fisheye images, and interactively rotates them on the dome.