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Alpha Centaure
[Win] free application which features a view of the celestial sphere, a graph displaying various elongations of the visible planets,
astrosurf.com
a view of planets with regard to the Sun if the observer was placed outside of the solar system, a view representing the parts day and night of the planet,and more. |
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Carina Software
[Win, Mac] offers full featured planetarium software and more. Features include star charting, horizon editing, and more.
www.carinasoft.com
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Deepsky
[Win] integrated set of observation tools. Features include solar system information, star charts, an observing planner, and more.
www.deepsky2000.net
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Digital Universe
[Mac]
www.syz.com
a complete and highly accurate astronomy program useful for everyone from a student learning astronomy to a professional observer. It combines the advantages of a professional-levelplanetariumprogram with a massive hypertext multimedia encyclopedia to create an easy to use and effective tool which assists the user in observing and learning more about the heavens. |
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Distant Suns
[Win, Mac]
www.distantsuns.com
containing a database of over 16 million stars, you will be able to peer deep into the universe... You will be able to explore the planets from any angle...ever wanted to see what the back of Saturn looks like? Or the Jovian moon Io during eclipse? Or what the phase of the Moon was on your birthday? |
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Hallo Northern Sky
[Win] free planetarium program with
www.hnsky.org
25500 deepsky objects and all stars to magnitude 12 and with the original GSC CD's, GSC-ACT or the USNO to magnitude 15 or more. It displays all planets, the Moon, Sun, moons of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Neptune and a few hundred asteroids and comets. |
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Home Planet
[Win] an astronomy, space, and satellite-tracking package. Features include viewing earth maps,
www.fourmilab.ch
a panel showing detailed position and phase data for the Sun and Moon, a sky map, and much more. |
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Planetarium Gold
[Win]
www.planetariumgold.com
explore, find out about the origin of the universe, the development of galaxies, the birth and death of stars, and more. Engage in 3-D virtual simulations of our solar system and galaxy, where you can view and manipulate planets, moons, asteroids, and comets as they orbit around the sun. These 2 CD-ROMs are the perfect tool for learning about and exploring astronomy. |
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RedShift
[Win]
www.maris.com
allows you to recreate a view of the night sky from anywhere in the Solar System from 4700BC to 9999AD. |
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SkyChart
[Win, Mac]
www.southernstars.com
accurately simulates and displays the sky as it appears in the present, or from thousands of years in the past or future. With SkyChart III you can view the sky from any place on Earth, from any object in the solar system, or even from thousands of light years beyond it. |
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Stargazer's Delight
[Mac]
www.stargazersoft.com
see the night sky from any location on Earth at any given time. Zoom in and out, display or hide stars, constellations, deep sky objects, planets, constellation boundaries and so on. Animate the sky and see the stars wander about the sky, see the twilight and the sun risingand much more. |
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Stellarium
[Win, Mac OS X, Linux] Free open source planetarium software.
www.stellarium.org
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TheSky
[Win, Mac]
www.bisque.com
input your location on Earth and the date and time you wish to view the sky (any date between 4,712 B.C. to A.D. 10,000) and TheSky will show you the positions of the Sun, the Moon, planets, comets, asteroids, satellites, millions of stars and thousands of other deep-sky objects as they appear from your backyard. |
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Virtual Sky
[Win]
virtualskysoft.de
planetarium software not only for a quick view to the sky but also for precise charts of faint objects, asteroids with high accuracy positions (numerical integrated), identifying artificial satellites, conjunctions. |