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Stellarium - http://www.stellarium.org/
Shows a realistic sky in 3D, as with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope, including fisheye projection for domes. [Free open source (GPL) - Windows, Mac, Linux] |
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Data Services - http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/
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, and data for major solar system bodies and bright stars. |
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Starry Night - http://www.starrynight.com/
Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows XP/Vista, Mac OSX] |
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Home Planet - http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html
A space and astronomy package, with satellite-tracking capabilities. [freeware - Windows] |
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http://www.bisque.com/ - http://www.bisque.com/
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] |
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AstroViewer: Quick Orientation in the Night Sky - http://www.astroviewer.com
The AstroViewer planetarium applet shows a sky map for any time and any location on Earth. Individual printable sky maps (GIF, PDF) may be created. |
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CyberSky - http://www.cybersky.com/
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 - Win98/2000/XP/Vista] |
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http://www.skymap.com/ - http://www.skymap.com/
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] |
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Hallo Northern Sky - http://www.hnsky.org/software.htm
planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC CD-ROMs. [Freeware - Win95/98/NT/XP] |
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Project Pluto - http://www.projectpluto.com/
Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT] |
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Dutch Occultation Association - http://www.doa-site.nl/
Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ). |
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Jovian Satellite Simulator - http://indigo.ie/~gnugent/JupSat95/
JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT] |
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SkyTools - http://www.skyhound.com/cs.html
Observation planning, charting and logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT] |
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LunarPhase Pro - http://www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhaseCD
Lunar observer's toolkit with real time moon simulation including libration. Identify lunar features; zoom, pan and print moon maps; monthly lunar ephemeris; many charts, diagrams and printouts. Commercial, free demo, Windows. |
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MegaStar Sky Atlas - http://www.willbell.com/software/megastar/index.htm
resource for deep-sky observing. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95] |
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Coeli Astronomy Software - http://www.coeli.com
Complete line of PC astronomy software, including Stella 2000 - talking astronomy suite with encyclopedic reference, logbook, orrery, and planetarium with telescope control. Free astronomy software gifts on offer here. [shareware,freeware,commercial - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP] |
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RedShift - http://www.redshift.de/us/_main/index.htm
Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial, Windows] |
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MyStars! - http://www.relativedata.com/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] |
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Stellaris Software - http://www.stellaris-software.com
An astronomy shareware program. It includes simulations of the night sky (including NGC objects) and solar system. It also plots user-definable graphs, displays space images and comes with various utilities such as an astronomical calculator. |
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Distant Suns - http://www.distantsuns.dk
Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh] |
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HyperSky - http://www.willbell.com/software/hypersky/hypersky.htm
an astronomical data display engine allowing full control over what objects are displayed, with "hypertext-like" information about those objects. Beginning to show its age. The demo uses a DOS installer which failed to work on this reviewer's system. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95] |
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SkyChart - http://www.southernstars.com/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] |
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Deep Space - http://www.davidchandler.com/dspace.htm
observer-oriented star mapping and telescope control software. [commercial, demo available - DOS] |
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DeepSkyLive - http://users.telenet.be/deepskylive/
A free online planetarium JAVA-applet for producing detailed finder charts for 10,000s of deep-sky objects. Stars to magnitude 11.5 and deep-sky objects to magnitude 16.5 may be viewed and printed. |
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http://www.easysky.de/eng/ - http://www.easysky.de/eng/
Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. |