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Place of Birth: Villefranche-sur-Saône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About 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.He previously worked as a Research Engineer at the Paris Astronomical 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.
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