Desktop Planetarium and Charting
Links
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.
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.
Planisphere
Displays appropriate sky area on monitor for any date. [Freeware - Windows]
Starry Night
Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
Distant Suns
Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
Desktop Universe
http://www.desktopuniverse.com
Photographic-based star atlas and planetarium. [commercial - Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP]
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.