PlanetariumVR
Release date: Dec 17, 2021
Developers: hublab
Publishers: hublab
Genres: Casual, Indie, Simulation
Categories: Single-player, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

Messier Challenge & Star Challenge Learn the positions of the 110 objects from the Messier catalog. Learn the positions of 103 bright stars. Star Sweeper Play Star Sweeper - like the Minesweeper - in a giant sphere in virtual reality under the night sky. Gallery mode Explore hundreds of images representing deep sky objects, such as nebulae and galaxies. Planetarium With light pollution, it is getting more difficult to fully appreciate the night sky, see the constellations, and determine the position of deep sky objects, from our pale blue dot. With this planetarium, you can learn and appreciate the beauty of a dark night sky. Amateur astronomers can prepare their observations by having a real sense of where deep sky objects are through virtual reality, without relying on a GoTo mount. 'Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.' Plato, The Republic, 342 BCE. Key features 41375 stars (apparent magnitude < 8) The planets of the Solar system and the Moon. 88 constellations Deep Sky Object Catalogs: Messier (110), Caldwell (109), and Herschel 400 (400), NGC (7840), IC (5386) , Arp (338), Sharpless-2 (313) Deep Sky Object images from surveys: Original Digitized Sky Survey 2nd Digitized Sky Survey (Red) 2nd Digitized Sky Survey (Blue) 2nd Digitized Sky Survey-Near Infrared Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer 1, 2, 3, and 4. The Equatorial Grid, Azimuthal Grid, Ecliptic Plane, and Galactic Plane. Bortle Scale effect, location, and time options Action Point to objects in the sky to get information. Valve Index: Trigger HTC Vive: Trigger Oculus Touch: Trigger Playlist Music of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, G. Mahler, A. Dvorak, M. Mussorgsky, M. Ravel, and I. Stravinsky for relaxing.