Astronomy: Software: Desktop Planetarium and Charting: Page 2

Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows]

displays stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and star clusters, with animations and a screen saver. [Shareware - DOS/Win 3.x]

rudimentary sky-charting program outputs schematic maps in five projection types, using a small star database or the SAO and PPM. [Freeware DOS/Win95]

JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT]

rudimentary display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet]

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]

basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x]

Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.

a multi-feature digital orrery. [Shareware - Windows 95/98/ME]

planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC CD-ROMs. [Freeware - Win95]

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 ]

Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP]

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]

Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ).

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.

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.