Welcome to Magnitudo

Magnitudo is a free astronomy web application. The core of Magnitudo is a 3D Star Browser - you can explore stars and constellations as they appear in the real sky. You are not limited to the solar system perspective. Just use the mouse to navigate to a star of your interest! You can also use the built-in star calalog to browse the stars and its properties.

Magnitudo is free for use. All you need is a modern web browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera. If you are using Internet Explorer, you must have version 9 or higher. Google Chrome is the fastest for Magnitudo.

Just take off now and enjoy exploring the stars next to the Orion Spur in our Milky Way Galaxy.

(Preview version 0.3.3! Still under development.)

Background Information


Magnitudo is completly written in HTML5 and JavaScript. It also profits a lot from the jQuery JS Library. The 3D view is using an own simple 3D renderer, but for future versions I consider using Three.js or WebGL directly. I started this project, because I am interested in astronomy and web technology. Maybe I publish the source as Open Source on a common Open Source Repository when the core is robust.

This project was just born. You can find more information here: FAQ, Quo Vadis.
I'll be happy to hear what you think about Magnitudo: Contact.