stellarium-web-engine

Stellarium Web Engine

About

Stellarium Web Engine is a JavaScript planetarium renderer using WebGL that can be embedded into a website.

Features

• Atmosphere simulation.
• Gaia stars database access (more than 1 billion stars).
• HiPS surveys rendering.
• High resolution planet textures.
• Constellations.
• Support for adding layers and shapes in the sky view.
• Landscapes.

Build the javascript version

You need to make sure you have both emscripten and sconstruct installed.

# Setup emscripten path.
source $PATH_TO_EMSDK/emsdk_env.sh

# Build stellarium-web-engine.js and stellarium-web-engine.wasm
# This will also copy the files into html/static/js
make js

# Now see apps/simple-html/ to try the library in a browser.

Contributing

In order for your contribution to Stellarium Web Engine to be accepted, you have to sign the Stellarium Web Contributor License Agreement (CLA).