Astronomy: Software: Desktop Planetarium and Charting: Page 4

Observation planning, charting & logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT]

Interactive night sky plotter. [freeware - Windows]

Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows/Macintosh]

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

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]

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.

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 ]

planetarium and telescope control program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]

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]

Interactive astronomy program for Unix systems with X Windows and Motif. [open source - Unix]