Mirror of the main Gaia Sky repository hosted on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gaiasky/gaiasky
Gaia Sky is a real-time 3D Universe application that runs on Linux, Windows and macOS. It is developed within the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart more than 1 billion stars.
A part of Gaia Sky is described in the paper Gaia Sky: Navigating the Gaia Catalog.
To get the latest up-to-date and most complete information,
This file contains the following sections:
Component | Minimum requirement |
---|---|
Operating system | Linux / Windows 7+ / macOS, 64-bit |
CPU | Intel Core i5 3rd Generation or similar. 4 core or higher recommended |
GPU | Support for OpenGL 3.2 (4.x recommended) and GLSL 3.3 , 1 GB RAM |
Memory | 2-6 GB RAM depending on catalog |
Hard drive | 1 GB of free disk space (depending on datasets) |
This is the Gaia Sky source repository. We recommend using the pre-built packages for the different Operating Systems in case you want a stable and hassle-free experience. We offer pre-built packages for Linux, macOS or Windows here.
In order to compile and run Gaia Sky from source, you need the following installed in your system:
JDK15+
git
First, clone the Gaia Sky repository:
git clone https://gitlab.com/gaiasky/gaiasky.git
Then, run Gaia Sky (Linux, macOS) with the provided script:
cd gaiasky
./gaiasky
On Windows, open PowerShell, make sure your $JAVA_HOME
environment variable points to a valid JDK15+ installation, and run:
.\gradlew.bat core:run
Et voilà ! The bleeding edge Gaia Sky is running in your machine.
Run gaiasky -h
or man gaiasky
to find out about how to launch Gaia Sky and what arguments are accepted.
If running directly with gradle, you can add arguments using the gradle --args
flag, like this:
gradlew core:run --args='-h'
As of version 2.1.0
, Gaia Sky offers an automated way to download all data packs and catalogs from within the application. When Gaia Sky starts, if no base data or catalogs are found, the downloader window will prompt automatically. Otherwise, you can force the download window at startup with the -d
argument. Just select the data packs and catalogs that you want to download, press Download now
and wait for the process to finish.
You can also download the data packs manually here.
The most up-to-date documentation of Gaia Sky is always hosted at gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/gaiasky/docs.
In order to add the documentation submodule to the project, do:
git submodule init
git submodule update
The documentation project will be checked out in the docs/
folder.
This software is published and distributed under the MPL 2.0 (Mozilla Public License 2.0). You can find the full license text here or visiting https://opensource.org/licenses/MPL-2.0.
The main webpage of the project is zah.uni-heidelberg.de/gaia/outreach/gaiasky. There you can find the latest versions and the latest information on Gaia Sky.
The latest acknowledgements are always in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md file.
You can run Gaia Sky in VR with Valve's OpenVR with the -vr
flag.
gaiasky -vr
More information on how to make the VR version work properly in the VR.md file.