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General Public Licence (GPL) Software
- Free planetarium program HNSKY for Windows - Good sky and planetarium program
- Astronomical Tools to download - Some helpful astronomical software
- Celestia - 3D planetarium software, not restricted to surface of the Earth! Celestia website
- KStars - Excellent Earth-based planetarium software for your desktop! Recommended to use with Ubuntu operating system. KStars website
- Virtual Moon Atlas - Also for older PCs: Moon Atlas
- Tachyon: Nice astronomy software for pocket pcs
- Orionic: The night sky for pocket pcs
- 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
- Deepskystacker to perform your Astro photos:Deepskystacker
- StarCalc to map your star photos :StarCalc
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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.