Night sky view in Title/Summary

Starry Night Sky Browser Theme

This theme will put a starry background on the browser toolbar, and also a box that you can use to search for anything using the Bing search engine. Immediately to the right of that box, the program will put an arrow. By clicking on it, you will be able to choose to access the Brand Thunder web site, access the page to look for more themes, or visit Twitter, Facebook, Amazon or eBay.

• Publisher: Brand Thunder
• Last updated: July 9th, 2012

Sky View Cafe

Sky View Café is a Java applet that lets you see many types of astronomical information, in both graphical and numerical form. You can see which stars and planets will be out tonight in the sky above your home town, see how the next solar or lunar eclipse will look from Los Angeles, or find out when the Moon rose over Sydney on your birthday ten years ago.

• Publisher: Kerry Shetline
• Home page: www.skyviewcafe.com
• Last updated: March 26th, 2010

Starry Night Enthusiast

Starry Night Enthusiast gives you the freedom and resources to explore the night sky on your computer or with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars. The application features exoplanets modelled as 3D bodies with proper location, size, orbit and planetary textures and an Universal Search function to explore the universe.

• Publisher: Imaginova Canada Ltd.
• Home page: www.starrynight.com
• Last updated: April 29th, 2015

Night sky view in Description

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
• Last updated: March 29th, 2016

Pawclock

A powerful yet easy-to-use digital clock, which displays the current time on your desktop. One of the most interesting parts of this tool is that it displays time in different background pictures as per the day process. Furthermore, if you are not satisfied with these backgrounds, you can add your own pictures to create nice backgrounds. Also provided with alarm clock features.

• Publisher: Pawsoft
• Home page: pawsoft.pabuk.com
• Last updated: April 29th, 2008

AstroViewer

AstroViewer is an interactive sky map that helps you to find your way in the night sky quickly and easily. Just set your location and time and start exploring the starry sky, find planets and constellations, and much more. AstroViewer offers you to display a Sky Map for the specified location and time.

• Publisher: Dirk Matussek
• Last updated: October 6th, 2012

Moon Light Animated Wallpaper

AnimatedWallpaper7 has developed Moon Light Animated Wallpaper especially for all those of you who often feel melancholic or romantic, or for those of you who simply enjoy full moon photographs and the night sky. Moon Light Animated Wallpaper sends you far away, in the serene space, away from your daily routine and the gray setting of the crowded, noisy cities.

• Publisher: AnimatedWallpaper7
• Home page: www.animatedwallpaper7.com
• Last updated: March 3rd, 2011

StarMessage Screen Saver

StarMessage Screen Saver will bring the moon and the stars to your desktop. It will show you the moon in its current phase and will notify you before the full moon. Write your name and the stars will move around the screen getting closer until they form the letters. StarMessage Screen Saver includes many extras, which you will have to discover yourself, since they are too many to mention here.

• Publisher: StarMessage Software
• Home page: www.starmessagesoftware.com
• Last updated: June 8th, 2017

Additional Night sky view selection

Starfield Desktop Wallpaper

Animated Desktop Wallpaper Starfield is an astronomy themed desktop background for Windows PCs that gives off the effect of a starry night sky.One nice thing about Animated Desktop Wallpaper Starfield is that you can change the underlying wallpaper while keeping the star animations. This allows you to create virtually endless combinations of desktop backgrounds with your animated stars.

• Publisher: Artdock
• Last updated: December 16th, 2017

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

AKVIS LightShop

AKVIS LightShop is intended to enhance your photographs by adding light elements, such as stars and glows. Luckily, the tool is quite easy to use, even more so if you are already familiar with other programs by the same developer. It's interface is very intuitive with a convenient layout. Likewise, it is good that there are two working modes.

• Publisher: AKVIS
• Home page: akvis.com
• Last updated: July 13th, 2022

ZET

ZET is a utility created for professional astrologers that includes astronomy data and functions, making it a good tool for learning astronomy also. Interactive natal, transit and synastry charts can be created by the application. A sky view can be used for learning the constellations.

• Publisher: Anatoly Zaytsev
• Home page: www.zaytsev.com
• Last updated: April 27th, 2012

MaxIm DL

A typical imaging sequence will include hours of autoguided images with dither, automatic filter changes, and pier flipping – all the while slewing your dome and monitoring the weather. Every image is tagged with extensive data in its FITS header. When your weather sensor reports unsafe conditions MaxIm DL will automatically shut down your equipment, park the telescope, and safe the dome.

• Publisher: Diffraction Limited
• Home page: www.cyanogen.com
• Last updated: May 20th, 2017

Starry Night CSAP

With direct, easy-to-understand explanations and impressive visuals of all kinds of night sky phenomena, Starry Night Complete Space & Astronomy Software is a way to share the wonders of the universe with your entire family. Satisfy your curiosity about the universe without having to do more than point, click and explore.

• Publisher: Imaginova Canada Ltd.
• Last updated: February 27th, 2010

RedShift

Designed for both the beginner and the experienced astronomy enthusiast, Redshift contains the most up to date technology and information. From basic information, pictures and video up to telescope control in our Premium version, Redshift is ideal for your in the field observation. If you are a current owner, you can easily upgrade your older version for great prices.

• Publisher: Maris Technologies, Ltd.
• Last updated: September 27th, 2011

Astro Photography Tool - APT

This is an astro imaging application, which can use images captured from cameras. No matter what camera you use - Canon, EOS, DSLR, or CCD, Astro Photography Tool has the right tool for planning, collimating, aligning, focusing, analyzing and monitoring the data.

• Publisher: astroplace
• Home page: www.ideiki.com
• Last updated: December 4th, 2022

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

Deep Sky Free Screensaver

Have you ever dreamed about being an astronaut and visiting other planets out there? Deep Sky Screensaver takes you out of this world to space. This awesome screensaver will really take you out there. Forget about the usual space screensavers with just a couple of images of the Earth and the moon.

• Publisher: SAVERS4FREE.COM
• Home page: www.savers4free.com
• Last updated: October 30th, 2017