Astronomy planetarium in Title/Summary

Planetarium

Planetarium is an easy to use astronomy software program for your PC. This program offers the possibility to see the planets from 3 different views: Horizontal, Geocentric and Heliocentric. You can also add and change location / city by selecting between ten preset locations: add and edit locations.

• Publisher: Asynx GmbH
• Last updated: December 13th, 2011

StarCalc

This software tool is a professional astronomy planetarium and star mapping program specially designed for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP. StarCalc illustrates the star positions at any instance of the day as observed from any geographic location on Earth. The star positions can be viewed and presented as images in a hemispherical whole sky or in any of the user-defined sub-areas.

• Publisher: Alexander E. Zavalishin
• Home page: www.m31.spb.ru
• Last updated: March 1st, 2008

Asynx Planetarium

Asynx Planetarium is a easy to use planetarium program and solar system simulator. It can display the night sky from any location on earth and between the year 1760 and 9999. Perfect for students, kids and astronomy beginners. Try it, it's free !

• Publisher: Asynx Software Inc.
• Last updated: May 19th, 2014

Astronomy planetarium in Description

Autostar Suite

Autostar Suite is a digital astronomy application for your Meade telescope. Main Features: - Select objects from the planetarium display and have your telescope automatically slew to those objects. - Control all Autostar functions from your PC. - Talking Telescope app translates Autostar text to synthesized speech through your PC speaker. - Remote telescope control over the Internet.

• Publisher: Meade Instruments Corporation
• Last updated: March 5th, 2013

Distant Suns Edition

Distant Suns is a program that will turn your screen into a planetarium. This astronomy tool will let you watch on your monitor a representation of the sky as seen from your current location, or from any other place. The sky will change as time passes, like in real life. Distant Suns includes every known planet, moon and star.

• Publisher: Mike Smithwick
• Last updated: February 17th, 2008

Nightshade NG Preview Release

Nightshade is simulation and visualization software for teaching and exploring astronomy, Earth science, and related topics. Nightshade NG (Next Generation) is a complete rewrite from the ground up. It throws out the limitations Nightshade Legacy inherited from older projects in favor of advanced features supported by cutting-edge simulation techniques.

• Publisher: Digitalis Education Solutions Inc.
• Home page: www.nightshadesoftware.org
• Last updated: December 1st, 2017

CyberSky

If you want to learn more about the sky overhead, namely the starry names and patterns, then CyberSky is exactly what you need. This full-featured planetarium software displays maps of the sky that you can customize in a variety of ways. Set any location on the Earth, change the viewing angle accordingly and view the names of different objects.

• Publisher: Stephen Michael Schimpf
• Home page: www.cybersky.com
• Last updated: January 25th, 2022

AlphaCentaure

AlphaCentaure is a planetarium software which can be used in complement with the other astronomy programs. The program features a view of the celestial spherewhere we can see stars, extragalactic objects, constellations, planets, comets and asteroids.

• Publisher: AlphaCentaure
• Home page: www.astrosurf.com
• Last updated: March 19th, 2008

Additional Astronomy planetarium selection

HNSKY

Hallo Northern Sky, or HNSKY for short, is a planetarium software tool capable of displaying stars up to magnitude 16 in high-quality graphics. With extensive databases containing data on comets, asteroids, 30,000 deep sky objects and 4.5 million stars, this free application is fully compatible with any telescope connected to an ASCOM-compliant interface.

• Publisher: Han Kleijn
• Home page: www.hnsky.org
• Last updated: March 29th, 2016

Aciqra

Aciqra is an open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past. You can tracking all 8 planets, the Sun, Moon and Galilean satellites and it calculates details including position, brightness, rise, set and transit times.

• Publisher: Caglow
• Home page: aciqra.caglow.com
• Last updated: October 17th, 2013

New Astronomy CCDCalc

CCDCalc allows you to select from a wide range of telescopes and cameras and visualize how they work together to image the sky. Includes nearly every camera made, and a wide selection of telescopes. This is a Visual Basic program that you can install on your computer, and is much more full-featured and flexible than the original online version.

• Publisher: Ron Wodaski
• Last updated: October 27th, 2008

AstroGrav

A full-featured, high precision solar system simulator that calculates the gravitational interactions between all astronomical bodies, so that the motions of asteroids and comets are accurately simulated. Superb interactive 3D viewing is included.

• Publisher: AstroGrav Astronomy Software
• Home page: www.astrograv.co.uk
• Last updated: April 15th, 2024

EasySky

Astronomy software, shows you the complete night sky (340,000 stars) and our solar system in a 3D orrery view with the planets, asteroids, and comets from any place at any time. Many animation options, printing.

• Publisher: Matthias Busch
• Home page: www.easysky.de
• Last updated: March 20th, 2008

Astronomy Picture of the Day Gadget

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.You can choose from one of two options: view a new picture each day or each time loading Dashboard!

• Publisher: Stefan Ortner
• Last updated: April 4th, 2009

Astronomy PoD

With Astronomy PoD you can get stunning pictures from NASA with amazing sunsets, beautiful sky with stars. The Astronomy PoD widget will only work if you have a compatible widget engine installed. This widget is easy to install and requires Opera, as the search engine.

• Publisher: Opera Software ASA
• Home page: widgets.opera.com
• Last updated: October 21st, 2011

AcruSky Planetarium

The program has a wide range of features which allow to gather comprehensive and accurate information about astronomical phenomena and celestial objects. AcruSky Planetarium calculates circumstances of many astronomical events such as moon phases, eclipses, planet conjunctions and oppositions, rising and setting, motion tracks and etc.

• Publisher: Alexander Krutov
• Home page: www.krutov.org
• Last updated: October 14th, 2011

Astronomy Calculators

The program calculates planetary/lunar ephemerides, orbit properties, and downloads live images of the Sun, satellite tracks and auroral ovals from the internet. Features: - As seen on the Sky at Night magazine's CD-ROM! - Calculate focal ratios and the optical properties of your setup.

• Publisher: george7378
• Last updated: May 23rd, 2012

Stellarium

Stellarium 0.9.1is a free program that puts a 3D planetarium on your computer screen. It lets you choose your viewing point coordinates, so you can watch the sky on the screen as if you were using a telescope in real life. You can make the illusion more realistic adding atmosphere effects and views including the ground.

• Publisher: Stellarium team
• Home page: www.stellarium.org
• Last updated: March 27th, 2024