Fabien Chéreau
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.
Fabien Chéreau | |
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| Born | September 17, 1980 Villefranche-sur-Saône, France |
| 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.