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.
Celestial Sphere: Online Virtual Planetarium
A sophisticated java applet showing 9000+ stars, planets, and messier objects.
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]
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]
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.
Deep Space
observer-oriented star mapping and telescope control software. [commercial, demo available - DOS]
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]
Desktop Universe
Photographic-based star atlas and planetarium. [commercial - Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP]
Distant Suns
Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
Dutch Occultation Association
Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ).
EasySky
Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.
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]
Hallo Northern Sky
planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC CD-ROMs. [Freeware - Win95]
Home Planet
A comprehensive space and astronomy package, with satellite-tracking capabilities. [freeware - Win95/NT]
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]
Jovian Satellite Simulator
JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT]
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]
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.
MegaStar Sky Atlas
resource for deep-sky observing. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
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]
Navigator Light
Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows]
Planet Finder
rudimentary display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet]
Planet's Orbits
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
Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial]
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]
SkyTools
Observation planning, charting & logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT]
Starmap
Interactive night sky plotter. [freeware - Windows]
Starry Night
Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
StarTrax and StarShow
displays stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and star clusters, with animations and a screen saver. [Shareware - DOS/Win 3.x]
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]
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.
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 ]
SunClock by Andrea Esuli
Shows the daylight face of the Earth, the position of the Sun, the position of the Moon and its phase. [freeware - Windows 9x/NT/2k/XP]
The Earth Centered Universe
planetarium and telescope control program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]
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]
XEphem
Interactive astronomy program for Unix systems with X Windows and Motif. [open source - Unix]