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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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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] |
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Stellarium - http://www.stellarium.org/
Shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. |
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Project Pluto - http://www.projectpluto.com/
Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT] |
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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/Macintosh] |
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SkyMap - 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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SkyTools - http://www.skyhound.com/cs.html
Observation planning, charting and logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT] |
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XEphem - http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/
Interactive astronomy program for Unix systems with X Windows and Motif. [open source - Unix] |
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The Earth Centered Universe - http://www.nova-astro.com/
planetarium and telescope control program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT] |
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HyperSky - http://www.willbell.com/software/hypersky/hypersky.htm
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 system. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95] |
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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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Coeli Astronomy Software - http://www.coeli.com
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 - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP] |
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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. |
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Jovian Satellite Simulator - http://indigo.ie/~gnugent/JupSat95/
JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT] |
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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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Dutch Occultation Association - http://www.doa-site.nl/
Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ). |
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Lunar Map Pro - http://www.riti.com/prodserv_lunarmappro.htm
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] |
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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
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. |
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Perseus Astronomy Simulation Software - http://www.elitalia.it/perseus/
Perseus is a complete, powerful and fast desktop planetarium. Software features very good graphics, "real deep" technology, 3D solar system objects, scripting function for lecturers, plus ASCOM support. Italian and English versions are available. |
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EasySky - http://www.easysky.de/eng/
Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. |
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Power Age - http://www.poweragesky.com
basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x] |
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RedShift - http://www.redshift.de/us/_main/index.htm
Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial] |
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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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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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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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DeskNite - http://www.coeli.com/desknite.htm
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] |
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Celestial Sphere: Online Virtual Planetarium - http://www.pcsapo.com/csphere/csphere.html
A sophisticated java applet showing 9000+ stars, planets, and messier objects. |
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Free Celestial Maps - http://www.geocities.com/ovidiuv/maps.html
rudimentary sky-charting program outputs schematic maps in five projection types, using a small star database or the SAO and PPM. [Freeware DOS/Win95] |
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Distant Suns - http://www.distantsuns.dk
Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh] |
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SunClock by Andrea Esuli - http://www.esuli.it/Software/SunClock/
Shows the daylight face of the Earth, the position of the Sun, the position of the Moon and its phase. [freeware - Windows 9x/NT/2k/XP] |
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Starmap - http://webpages.charter.net/thegl/starmap.html
Interactive night sky plotter. [freeware - Windows] |
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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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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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ThatsCatchy.com - http://www.thatscatchy.com/
Home of Scorpius 2005 Personal Planetarium which features highly realistic rendering of the night sky and deep space objects based on astronomical photographs. Software requires that the Java Runtime Environment be installed. |
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Solar System Wallpaper - http://home.exetel.com.au/stebbins/simon/solsyswallpaper.html
Every time the program is run, it shows the locations of the planets and their orbits, as seen from above (north of) the Solar System. Even the background image is the view of space seen from the correct orientation. |
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StarTrax and StarShow - http://hometown.aol.com/starshow1
displays stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and star clusters, with animations and a screen saver. [Shareware - DOS/Win 3.x] |
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SKYLab Astronomy Software - http://www.skylab.com.au
Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP] |
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The Sky - http://www.bisque.com/
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] |
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Home Planet - http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html
A space and astronomy package, with satellite-tracking capabilities. [freeware - Win95/NT] |