New careers for founders of OpenSource Sky Simulations

[t00fri]

ESO became interested in using Stellarium as a way to offer their enormous archives of sky data to professional astronomers in an attractive and easy to use program, and they hired project founder Fabien Chereau who is now working full-time on Stellarium.

Bye Fridger

[ElChristou]

Normal; it's in such case that one understand why the polish is sometime as important and sometime more important than the product... I'm not saying Stellarium is a bad soft, I'm saying the polish call attention and make the soft attractive for mass use...

[t00fri]

Stellarium (0.90) is all BUT bad software:

++ Thanks to ++

The celestia project team from which I borrowed many code parts (GPL license).

Chris Laurel (claurel (at) shatters.net) who makes Celestia.

The orbit.cpp/h and solve.h files are directly borrowed from Celestia (Chris Laurel). (GPL license)

Other pieces of code and ideas are from Celestia too (GPL license).

Bye Fridger

[ElChristou]

Normal; it's in such case that one understand why the polish is sometime as important and sometime more important than the product... I'm not saying Stellarium is a bad soft, I'm saying the polish call attention and make the soft attractive for mass use...

Who says Stellarium was bad?
What I mean above is that a well packed/polished soft is always attractive. I'm not surprised at all ESA want to use Stellarium.