Desktop Planetarium and Charting
Desktop Planetarium and Charting Links
- Home Planet Release 3 of Home Planet, a comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking package. [freeware - Win95/NT]
- Stella 2000 Astronomy Software Astronomy suite comprising planetarium with scintillation effects, realtime Sky Quiz, observing log and telescope optics, along with an HTML guide to the solar system. The software also integrates a dictionary of 1000 astronomical terms and a book-length primer containing topics like "What are the Stars?", "Choosing a Telescope", "Cosmology", "Dark Matter", "The History of Astronomy", and others. Uses Microsoft Agent speech technology to correctly pronounce over 300 star names. [Shareware - Win95/98/NT/2000]
- SkyTools Observation planning, charting & logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT]
- Free Allstar A simple planetarium producing charts using data from various catalogs. [Freeware - Win95/NT]
- SKYLab planetarium program incorporating the Hipparcos and Tycho star catalogues and listing new variable and double stars discovered by Hipparcos. [commercial Win9x/NT/2000]
- Project Pluto - Guide Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT]
- SkyMap A CD-ROM planetarium and star-charting program equally suited to both the casual stargazer and the serious amateur or professional astronomer, although its feature list will appeal especially to the more advanced user. [Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT]
- Power Age Basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, major planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x]
- MyStars! planetarium program generating accurate charts, with stars, planets, comets, and asteroids. Orrery views make it a useful teaching tool. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]
- Coeli Astronomy Software Complete line of PC astronomy software, including Stella 2000 - talking astronomy suite with encyclopedic reference, logbook, and planetarium with telescope control. Free astronomy software gifts on offer here. [shareware,freeware,commercial - Win95/98/NT]
- XEphem Interactive astronomy program for Unix systems with X Windows and Motif. [open source - Unix]
- Jovian Satellite Simulator JupSat95 calculates and graphically displays the positions of Jupiter's four main (Galilean) moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT]
- CyberSky displays the stars, constellations, deep sky objects, Sun, Moon, and planets as visible from any location on Earth at any given time, with optional animation. [shareware - Win95/98/NT]
- DeskNite - Live Celestial Wallpaper turns your Windows Desktop into a real-time night sky, just as if viewed from your own back yard, no matter what part of the world you live in. [Freeware - Win95/98/NT]
- Deep Space Observer-oriented star mapping and telescope control software. [commercial, demo available - DOS]
- RedShift Multimedia desktop planetarium CD-ROM. [Commercial]
- MegaStar Sky Atlas resource for deep-sky observing. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
- StarTrax and StarShow displays stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and star clusters, along with animations and a colorful screen saver. [Shareware - DOS/Win 3.x]
- Hallo Northern Sky Planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC cd-roms. [Freeware - Win95]
- Starry Night A planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. Demo available. [Commercial Windows/Macintosh]
- SkyChart Planetarium program displaying the sky from anywhere on Earth, in the solar system, or in the Milky Way, and for any point in time in the future or past. It supports numerous telescope computer controllers. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95/NT, Mac]
- Star-map Studio program to create and print sky-charts, showing stars, galaxies, clusters, and nebulae. [freeware]
- Eclipse Simulation and Moon Phases Solar and lunar eclipse simulator, with a freeware lunar phase simulator. [commercial/freeware - DOS/Win95]
- Adastra Freestar Astronomy 5-star (ZDNet) freeware astronomy planetarium with HTML guide to the planets. [Freeware w/ optional shareware upgrades - Win95/NT/2000]
- HyperSky An astronomical data display engine; gives the user full control over what objects are displayed with "hypertext-like" information about those displayed objects. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
- Sun, Moon & Earth Applet interactively displays the positions of sun and moon on the horizon for any date, time and location. Detailed solar and lunar data are computed.
- The Earth Centered Universe Planetarium and telescope control Program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]
- The Sky planetarium program showing you the sky on any date, from any place on earth. Has features to benefit a wide range of interest levels, from the beginning hobbyist to the seasoned professional. [commercial, Win98/NT, MacOS]
- Planet Finder An applet that shows the locations of the planets in the night sky on any given date.
- Free Celestial Maps sky-charting program outputs schematic maps in five projection types, using a small star database and/or two professional star catalogues, the SAO and PPM. [Freeware DOS/Win95]
- StarFrame Applet Web site featuring a free Java planetarium applet which displays the 900 brightest stars and major planets.
- Navigator Light Celestial navigation software for Windows. Free trial version. Star finder. Vetor chart and GPS interface.
- Data Services from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Online forms provide sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and twilight times for one day or one year; moon phases, eclipse charts, data for major solar system bodies and bright stars, and more.
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