Fabien Chéreau
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Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French research engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.[1]
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Fabien Chéreau | |
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Born | (1980-09-17) September 17, 1980 (age 43) |
Education | Lycée du Val de Saône Tampere University of Technology National Institute of Applied Sciences |
Occupation | Programmer |
Years active | 2000–present |
Known for | Stellarium |
He previously worked as a Research Engineer at the Paris Observatory for the satellite Gaia of European Space Agency on a CNES-funded position for the On-board Detection and the Radial Velocity Spectrometer working groups. He worked in ESO on a plugin for Stellarium, called VirGO, from April 2008 to 2010.
Chéreau wrote the first version of the Gaia on-board detection algorithm. He worked on the definition of the Spectro sky mappers and was in charge of the development of the algorithms for these instruments.