Stellarium Portable 0.11.0 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.

What's New in version 0.11.0:
* Stellarium now takes into account the refraction of the atmosphere in the visualization of the sky so far, it seems, is the only planetarium simulates refraction in full.
* Redesigned search tool
* Oculars plugin rewritten & expanded. Includes binocular support, better CCD support.
* New plugin: Historical supernovae; now you can watch the flashes of bright 13 of these stars (in the calculation were taken only by those whose peak was brighter than 10m).
* Type of deep-sky objects on the 'heaven' Stellarium's now possible to determine visually, without isolating the corresponding object.
* Increase in the number of satellites of the solar system planets.
* Were fixed annoying bugs in plug-ins and most of them acquired the improvements.
* By analogy with the description of the cultures of the sky began to speak in Russian and English of descriptions of landscapes.
* And, finally, has been fixed quite a few bugs in the Stellarium, including some from the list of 'feature requests.'
* There have also been a large number of bug fixes and some performance improvements.