Desktop Planetarium and Charting (Software)

Desktop Planetarium and Charting Sites:

Starry Night Starry Night: Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows/Macintosh] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.starrynight.com Navigator Light Navigator Light: Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.tecepe.com.br/nav Free Celestial Maps Free Celestial Maps: rudimentary sky-charting program outputs schematic maps in five projection types, using a small star database or the SAO and PPM. [Freeware DOS/Win95] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.geocities.com/ovidiuv/maps.html Stargaze & Copernicus Stargaze & Copernicus: basic planetarium programs for the PC and Acorn RISCOS computers. [Freeware - Win 95/98/NT/Me and Acorn] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.stargaze.force9.co.uk Planisphere Planisphere: Displays appropriate sky area on monitor for any date. [Freeware - Windows] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://nio.astronomy.cz/om The Sky 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] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.bisque.com/ Stellaris Software Stellaris Software: Stellaris is 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 utilites such as an astronomical calculator. (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.stellaris-software.com MegaStar Sky Atlas MegaStar Sky Atlas: resource for deep-sky observing. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.willbell.com/software/megastar/index.htm XEphem XEphem: Interactive astronomy program for Unix systems with X Windows and Motif. [open source - Unix] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ Project Pluto - Guide Project Pluto - Guide: Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.projectpluto.com/ Home Planet Home Planet: A comprehensive space and astronomy package, with satellite-tracking capabilities. [freeware - Win95/NT] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html Celestial Sphere: Online Virtual Planetarium Celestial Sphere: Online Virtual Planetarium: A sophisticated java applet showing 9000+ stars, planets, and messier objects. (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.pcsapo.com/csphere/csphere.html CyberSky 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] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.cybersky.com/ SkyTools SkyTools: Observation planning, charting & logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.skyhound.com/cs.html SkyMap 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/ (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.skymap.com/ Starmap Starmap: Interactive night sky plotter. [freeware - Windows] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://webpages.charter.net/thegl/starmap.html Stellarium Stellarium: basic planetarium designed to show the sky as seen from any place on Earth at any date. Accuracy has been sacrificed for the sake of "photorealism". Uses the HR catalog of 9000 stars. This reviewer encountered hardware incompatibility problems, (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://stellarium.free.fr SkyChart 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] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.southernstars.com/skychart Planet's Orbits Planet's Orbits: a multi-feature digital orrery. [Shareware - Windows 95/98/ME] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.alcyone.de/POrbits/english/ Stella 2000 Astronomy Software Stella 2000 Astronomy Software: Astronomy suite comprising planetarium with scintillation and live tracking, 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 bo (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.stella2000.com SKYLab Astronomy Software SKYLab Astronomy Software: Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.skylab.com.au Jovian Satellite Simulator Jovian Satellite Simulator: JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://indigo.ie/~gnugent/JupSat95/ Distant Suns Distant Suns: Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.distantsuns.dk The Earth Centered Universe The Earth Centered Universe: planetarium and telescope control program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.nova-astro.com/ Desktop Universe Desktop Universe: Photographic-based star atlas and planetarium. [commercial - Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.desktopuniverse.com RedShift RedShift: Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.redshift.de/us/_main/index.htm HyperSky HyperSky: 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 sy (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.willbell.com/software/hypersky/hypersky.htm Power Age Power Age: basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.poweragesky.com Planet Finder Planet Finder: rudimentary display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.lightandmatter.com/area2planet.shtml StarTrax and StarShow StarTrax and StarShow: displays stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and star clusters, with animations and a screen saver. [Shareware - DOS/Win 3.x] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://hometown.aol.com/starshow1 Star-map Studio Star-map Studio: program to create and print sky-charts, showing stars, galaxies, clusters, and nebulae. [freeware] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://mitglied.lycos.de/udan/sms/ DeskNite - Live Celestial Wallpaper DeskNite - Live Celestial Wallpaper: turns your Windows Desktop into the night sky as viewed from your own back yard, no matter what the time or which part of the world you live in. [Freeware - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.stella2000.com/desknite.htm Hallo Northern Sky Hallo Northern Sky: planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC CD-ROMs. [Freeware - Win95] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.hnsky.org/software.htm Dutch Occultation Association Dutch Occultation Association: Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ). (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://occultations.astronews4you.com/ Coeli Astronomy Software Coeli Astronomy Software: 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 - Win (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.coeli.com EasySky EasySky: Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.easysky.de/eng/ MyStars! 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] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.relativedata.com/mystars/ Deep Space Deep Space: observer-oriented star mapping and telescope control software. [commercial, demo available - DOS] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.davidchandler.com/dspace.htm AstroViewer: Quick Orientation in the Night Sky AstroViewer: Quick Orientation in the Night Sky: 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. (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.astroviewer.com LunarPhase Pro LunarPhase Pro: 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. (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhaseCD Lunar Map Pro Lunar Map Pro: Lunar Map Pro is astronomy 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] (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://www.riti.com/prodserv_lunarmappro.htm Data Services 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, and data for major solar system bodies and bright stars. (Desktop Planetarium and Charting) http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/