Software Recommendations
Wed, 15/08/2007 - 13:23 — Neptune
General Public Licence (GPL) Software
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- Free planetarium program HNSKY for Windows - Good sky and planetarium program
- Astronomical Tools to download - Some helpful astronomical software tools and forum
- Astronomical Tools to download - Some helpful astronomical software
- Astronomical Tools to download - Some helpful astronomical software
- Free planetarium program Stellarium - A nice sky and planetarium program
- Mitaka 4D - Mitaka is a wonderful 4d Planetary/Star Simulator (You will need 3D glasses, which you can easily make your self using red cellophane (left eye) and green cellophane (right eye) )
- Mandelbrot - Fractal Generator for PC
- Mandelbrot - Fractal Generator for Pocket PC
- Celestia - 3D planetarium software, not restricted to surface of the Earth! Celestia website
- Virtual Moon Atlas - Also for older PCs: Moon Atlas
- Tachyon: Nice astronomy software for pocket pcs
- Orionic: The night sky for pocket pcs
- Ephemeris 1.0: Moon phase generator for pocket pcs
- Smart Phone Astro Software: Free astro software for smart phones and pocket pcs
- Sideralis Java .jar file similar to Stellarium or KStar - but for your mobile phone , a really good program ! It also includes background mythology to the constellations . Amazing content for such a small file !!
- Mobile Jupiter Java .jar file for your mobile . It plots the relative positions of the Galilean moons of Jupiter on your mobile phone .
- KStars - Excellent Earth-based planetarium software for your desktop! Recommended to use with Ubuntu operating system. KStars website
- Space Flight Simulator Orbiter - Also for older PCs: Orbiter
- Extra Module for Orbiter software:Apollo Saturn and Eagle Moonlanding Simulation
- Extra Module for Orbiter software:Mercury - Redstone - Titan Simulator
- Extra Module for Orbiter software:Gemini Simulator
- Einstein at Home - Help Scietists !:Einstein at home project
- Deepskystacker to perform your Astro photos:Deepskystacker
- StarCalc to map your star photos :StarCalc
Comments
Stellarium
Stellarium Is my personal favourite. After inputting your Lattitude/Longitude, it will draw the sky live as it is seen at that moment of time, and also move the stars as they do in real time. They have versions for Windows, Mac and Linux, with all versions free of charge to download.