Websites in Desktop Planetarium and Charting

1. 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.
   http://www.astroviewer.com
   
   
2. Celestial Sphere: Online Virtual Planetarium
   A sophisticated java applet showing 9000+ stars, planets, and messier objects.
   http://www.pcsapo.com/csphere/csphere.html
   
   
3. 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 - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP]
   http://www.coeli.com
   
   
4. 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]
   http://www.cybersky.com/
   
   
5. 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.
   http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/
   
   
6. Deep Space
   observer-oriented star mapping and telescope control software. [commercial, demo available - DOS]
   http://www.davidchandler.com/dspace.htm
   
   
7. 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]
   http://www.stella2000.com/desknite.htm
   
   
8. Desktop Universe
   Photographic-based star atlas and planetarium. [commercial - Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP]
   http://www.desktopuniverse.com
   
   
9. Distant Suns
   Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
   http://www.distantsuns.dk
   
   
10. Dutch Occultation Association
    Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ).
    http://occultations.astronews4you.com/
    
    
11. EasySky
    Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.
    http://www.easysky.de/eng/
    
    
12. 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]
    http://www.geocities.com/ovidiuv/maps.html
    
    
13. Hallo Northern Sky
    planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC CD-ROMs. [Freeware - Win95]
    http://www.hnsky.org/software.htm
    
    
14. Home Planet
    A comprehensive space and astronomy package, with satellite-tracking capabilities. [freeware - Win95/NT]
    http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html
    
    
15. 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 system. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
    http://www.willbell.com/software/hypersky/hypersky.htm
    
    
16. Jovian Satellite Simulator
    JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT]
    http://indigo.ie/~gnugent/JupSat95/
    
    
17. 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]
    http://www.riti.com/prodserv_lunarmappro.htm
    
    
18. 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.
    http://www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhaseCD
    
    
19. MegaStar Sky Atlas
    resource for deep-sky observing. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
    http://www.willbell.com/software/megastar/index.htm
    
    
20. 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]
    http://www.relativedata.com/mystars/
    
    
21. Navigator Light
    Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows]
    http://www.tecepe.com.br/nav
    
    
22. Planet Finder
    rudimentary display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet]
    http://www.lightandmatter.com/area2planet.shtml
    
    
23. Planet's Orbits
    a multi-feature digital orrery. [Shareware - Windows 95/98/ME]
    http://www.alcyone.de/POrbits/english/
    
    
24. Planisphere
    Displays appropriate sky area on monitor for any date. [Freeware - Windows]
    http://nio.astronomy.cz/om
    
    
25. Power Age
    basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x]
    http://www.poweragesky.com
    
    
26. Project Pluto - Guide
    Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT]
    http://www.projectpluto.com/
    
    
27. RedShift
    Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial]
    http://www.redshift.de/us/_main/index.htm
    
    
28. SKYLab Astronomy Software
    Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP]
    http://www.skylab.com.au
    
    
29. 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]
    http://www.southernstars.com/skychart
    
    
30. 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 - Win95/98/NT]
    http://www.skymap.com/
    
    
31. SkyTools
    Observation planning, charting & logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT]
    http://www.skyhound.com/cs.html
    
    
32. Star-map Studio
    program to create and print sky-charts, showing stars, galaxies, clusters, and nebulae. [freeware]
    http://mitglied.lycos.de/udan/sms/
    
    
33. StarTrax and StarShow
    displays stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and star clusters, with animations and a screen saver. [Shareware - DOS/Win 3.x]
    http://hometown.aol.com/starshow1
    
    
34. Stargaze & Copernicus
    basic planetarium programs for the PC and Acorn RISCOS computers. [Freeware - Win 95/98/NT/Me and Acorn]
    http://www.stargaze.force9.co.uk
    
    
35. Starmap
    Interactive night sky plotter. [freeware - Windows]
    http://webpages.charter.net/thegl/starmap.html
    
    
36. Starry Night
    Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
    http://www.starrynight.com
    
    
37. 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 book-length primer containing topics like "What are the Stars?", "Choosing a Telescope", "Cosmology", "Dark Matter", "The History of Astronomy", and others. Uses Microsoft Agent speech technology to correctly pronounce over 300 star names. [Shareware - Win95/98/Me/XP/NT/2000]
    http://www.stella2000.com
    
    
38. 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.
    http://www.stellaris-software.com
    
    
39. 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, despite the appropriate specs. [Freeware Win 95/98/2000 and Linux, + 3D Card with OpenGL support ]
    http://stellarium.free.fr
    
    
40. The Earth Centered Universe
    planetarium and telescope control program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]
    http://www.nova-astro.com/
    
    
41. 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]
    http://www.bisque.com/
    
    
42. XEphem
    Interactive astronomy program for Unix systems with X Windows and Motif. [open source - Unix]
    http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/
    
    

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