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Desktop Planetarium and Charting



DeepSkyLive -- A free on line planetarium JAVA-applet for producing detailed finder charts for 10,000s of deep-sky objects. So... Stars to magnitude 11.5 & deep-sky objects to magnitude 16.5 may be viewed & printed. Visit

Power Age -- basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Clear? Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids & objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x] Visit

Navigator Light -- Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart & GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. And so... So far so good. Windows] Visit

Home Planet -- A comprehensive space & astronomy package, with satellite-tracking capabilities. [freeware - Win95/NT] Visit

Stellaris Software -- Stellaris is an astronomy shareware program. It includes simulations of the night sky (including NGC objects) & solar system. It also plots user-definable graphs, displays space images & comes with various utilites such as an astronomical calculator. Visit

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

Celestial Sphere: Online Virtual Planetarium -- A sophisticated java applet showing 9000+ stars, planets, and messier objects. Visit

Solar System Wallpaper -- Every time the program is run, it shows the locations of the planets & their orbits, as seen from above (north of) the Solar System. Even the background image is the view of space seen from the correct orientation. Visit

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