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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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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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http://www.bisque.com/ - http://www.bisque.com/
Planetarium program showing 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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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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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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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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Planet Finder - http://www.lightandmatter.com/area2planet.shtml
Simple display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet] |
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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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Aciqra: The Virtualized Sky - http://aciqra.caglow.com/
An open source desktop planetarium which tracks 120,000 stars, the planets, sun and moon, 130 deep space objects and a user-defined catalog of comets, asteroids and dwarf planets. |
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Lunar Map Pro - http://www.riti.com/prodserv_lunarmappro.htm
Astronomical software for amateur observers of the Moon. It has over 13000 features with full search data base of all the known craters including NASA Apollo landing sites.[Commercial - Win2K/XP] |
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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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Planisphere - http://nio.astronomy.cz/om
Displays appropriate sky area on monitor for any date. [Freeware - Windows] |
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Bubba's Bits - http://www.bubbasbits.com/
Offers the picoSky cellular telephone planetarium application which runs on most phones that allow Java game downloads. |
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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. |
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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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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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Hubble Space Telescope: Wallpaper - http://www.screenthemes.com/packs/hubb001/showall.htm
Thirty full-screen Hubble photos for use as wallpaper and screen saver. [Commercial - Win95/98/NT] |
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Perseus Astronomy Simulation Software - http://www.perseus.it/en/
Perseus is a complete desktop planetarium. Software features 3D solar system objects and scripting function for lecturers, plus ASCOM support. Italian and English versions are available. |
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Solarark - http://www.solarark.fi/
Planet2010 high accuracy astronomy software using VSOP87 planetary theory for calculating the positions of all of the planets within our solar system. Software is accurate for years between 1900 and 2100 (Commercial - win95,98,NT,win2000,XP). |
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http://webpages.charter.net/thegl/starmap.html - http://webpages.charter.net/thegl/starmap.html
Interactive night sky plotter. [Freeware - Windows] |