Desktop Planetarium and Charting
Links
Navigator Light
Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows]
Planet Finder
http://www.lightandmatter.com/area2planet.shtml
rudimentary display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet]
Planet's Orbits
http://www.alcyone.de/POrbits/english/
a multi-feature digital orrery. [Shareware - Windows 95/98/ME]
Planisphere
Displays appropriate sky area on monitor for any date. [Freeware - Windows]
Power Age
basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x]
Project Pluto - Guide
Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT]
RedShift
http://www.redshift.de/us/_main/index.htm
Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial]
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]
SKYLab Astronomy Software
Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP]
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]