shared cultures supported in Stellarium

During the conversation about Native Skywatchers Summer Workshop on the RASC Toronto Centre forum, Katrina noted that she saw that Stellarium supported different cultures. Indeed. I confirmed this, said that I knew Ojibwe and Dakota/Lakota was included. But that I hadn't seen Mi'kmaq...

That said, a key strength of Stellarium is that it was an open system so more starlore information on stars, constellations (with artwork), and planets could be added.

Then I dove into the app on the John Gomez computer.

Stellarium 0.21.0 has starlore or sky culture information for:

• Al-Sufi
• Almagest
• Anutan
• Arabic Moon Stations
• Aztec
• Babylonian (MUL.APIN and Seleucid)
• Belarusian
• Boorong
• Chinese (traditional, contemporary, medieval)
• Dakota/Lakota/Nakota
• Egyptian
• Hawaiian Starlines
• Indian Vedic
• Inuit
• Japanese Moon Stations
• Kamilaroi/Euahlayi
• Korean
• Lokono
• Macedonian
• Maori
• Maya
• Mongolian
• Navajo
• Norse
• Northern Andes
• Ojibwe
• Romanian
• Sami
• Sardinian
• Siberian
• Tongan
• Kukano
• Tupi-Guarani
• Vanuatu (Netware)
• Western (Roman-Greco, H.A.Rey, O.Hlad, Sky & Telescope)

She was suitably impressed. Might even download the software. SkySafari has nothing like this.

And Stellarium can operate in many different languages.