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Star Walk 2 contains in-app purchases. Star Walk 2 Free - Identify Stars in the Night Sky is a perfect planets, stars and constellations finder which can be used by both space amateurs and serious stargazers to learn astronomy by themselves. It is also a great educational tool for teachers to use during their astronomy classes. If you don't have an equatorial mount, by stacking non-blur star images in short-time exposures, the result will be almost similar to long-exposure on an equatorial mount. However, Sequator can control the exposure properly by auto-brightness or HDR-mode output, in 16-bit TIFF for further post processing. Starry Sky Stacker is Starry Landscape Stacker brother and it has been created to stack deep sky astrophotography images. As Starry Landscape Stacker, Starry Sky Stacker is very easy to use and intuitive, although very basic. If you are a casual star shooter and a Mac user, this could be a good choice for you. CyberSky also prints attractive sky charts that you can take outside with you. StarStrider Platform: Windows XP and above Cost: $22.00 Demo: 30-day trial download available StarStrider is a three-dimensional star plotting program that allows the user to see the stars and constellations from distant points in the sky.
This astronomy software page contains links to sites with PC software of interest to the astronomy hobbyist. These programs include useful astronomy utilities and programs that are educational and fun. Some of this software is free and some is commercial or shareware. There are also a few demo versions of some commercial software products.
Each entry contains a description of the software type as well as the last known price. Please read the information on each publisher's site for more detailed information. These astronomy software links are provided for informational purposes only. Sea and Sky does not endorse these products.
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- Astroviewer
Platform: Windows 98 and above Cost: Free Demo: Download available
AstroViewer is a planetarium software that helps you to find your way in the night sky quickly and easily. Due to its intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface, it fits well to the demands of astronomy beginners. - Celestia
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X Cost: Free Demo: N/A
Celestia is a very unique 3-dimensional universe simulator. With it you can travel throughout the Solar System, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects. The program is highly configurable and expandable. A library of add-ons and expansions is available including everything from additional stars & galaxies to science fiction worlds and spacecraft. For those with fast processors, you can even download and install super high resolution images of the planets and moons enabling you to zoom in close and explore every subtle detail. You can even take screen shots of your favorite scenes. Celestia is highly recommended by Sea and Sky! - Home Planet
Platform: Windows 95 and above Cost: Free Demo: N/A
Home Planet is a comprehensive astronomy, space, and satellite-tracking package for Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and above. Features include an Earth map showing day and night regions, position of selected satellites, positions of the planets, positions and phases of the Sun and Moon, sky map based on either the Yale Bright Star Catalogue or the 256,000 star SAO catalogue, including rendering of spectral types, planets, Earth satellites, asteroids and comets, and much more. - Stella 2000
Platform: Windows 95 and above Cost: Free Demo: N/A
Complete astronomy software suite exploring realistic skies in real time, with observing log, Sky Quiz, Live Orbits, telescope support, spoken pronunciation guide, a half-million word Encyclopedia Astronomica, and concentrated searches embracing planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and over 300,000 stars. An integral HTML guide to the solar system, a 1000-term astronomical dictionary, and the 2nd revised and enlarged edition of Aspects of Astronomy--a book-length primer covering topics such as 'What are the Stars?', 'Choosing a Telescope', 'Cosmology', 'Dark Matter', 'Eclipses', and 'The History of Astronomy', to name but a few--are closely coordinated with the sky display and picture windows. - Stellarium
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X Cost: Free Demo: N/A
Stellarium is a free GPL software program which renders realistic skies in real time with openGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and MacOSX. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. Loaded with advanced features, this incredible software will turn your PC into a virtual planetarium! This is definitely one of the best free astronomy programs currently available for download. Stellarium is highly recommended by Sea and Sky! - WinOrbit
Platform: Windows 3.1 or later Cost: Free Demo: N/A
WinOrbit is a free software package for Microsoft Windows (3.1 or later), which will compute and display the position of artificial Earth satellites. The principal feature of WinOrbit is a series of Map Windows, which display the current position of satellites and observers on a simple world map, together with information such as bearing (azimuth), distance, and elevation above the observer's horizon. The maps can be updated in real time, or in simulated time, or manually set to show the situation at any time past or future. An additional Table Window displays much more-detailed information about one or more satellites in a tabular form.
- Cybersky
Platform: Windows XP and above Cost: $34.95 Demo: 30-day trial download available
CyberSky is an exciting, entertaining, and educational astronomy program that transforms your personal computer into your personal planetarium. CyberSky provides an excellent way to learn about astronomy and to explore the wonders of the sky visible in the distant past, the present, and the far-off future. CyberSky displays accurate charts of the sky as seen from any location on the Earth. Sky charts can include stars, constellations, deep sky objects, and solar system objects, and can be enhanced by the addition of labels, coordinate system grids, and reference lines. CyberSky's user-friendly interface allows you to easily change your view of the sky, search for celestial objects, and display data about those objects. CyberSky also prints attractive sky charts that you can take outside with you. - StarStrider
Platform: Windows XP and above Cost: $22.00 Demo: 30-day trial download available
StarStrider is a three-dimensional star plotting program that allows the user to see the stars and constellations from distant points in the sky. With the help of StarStrider you will be able to travel to the stars and watch their alien skies. Travel to Vega and see how the Sun pales to a faint star, a star among thousands of others. Look at the Pleiades from behind! With ordinary red/blue 3D glasses your experience will be even greater. Now you can see the variable distances to the stars - without even leaving our solar system if you don't want to! Cassiopeia looks really different when you realize that the constellation aren't flat. You'll also learn to appreciate the fact that the closest stars are not always the brightest.
- MegaStar Sky Atlas
Platform: Windows 95 and above Cost: $129.95 Demo: N/A
MegaStar is the first software to integrate the Hubble Guide Star Catalog, and combine it with a massive deep sky database of 84,000 objects. It is also the first to implement the 'eyepiece view,' with deep sky objects plotted to scale and galaxies rotated to show position angle. This is an extremely detailed visual sky atlas program with too many features to mention here. Check out their site for more information. A demo version of the software is available for download. - Starry Night
Platform: Windows XP & above, Mac OS X 10.4 & above Cost: $24.95 - $239.95 Demo: N/A
Starry Night is the most visually stunning and realistic astronomy program in its class. A powerful tool for both serious observers and casual stargazers, Starry Night lets you view the universe from anywhere in the Solar System. Explore over 19 million celestial objects and travel across 14,700 years of night skies. Features include a 19 million object Hubble Guide Star catalog and the ability to add new objects and databases. An evaluation version of the Basic version is available for download.
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In astronomy, there is a wide variety of software. In most cases, there are many different versions of software that do a particular thing. The most common reason for this is preference. While I use some of these software titles, I am in no way endorsing one brand over another. All of the software listed here are popular among the amateur astronomer population; in fact, it is common for one person to have several different programs that do about the same thing - the features of one might be missing in another, but that other may excel in something else (if that makes sense). For ease, I will break them down into category. Keep in mind this list is not at all complete. If there is a software that is worth mentioning, please send us the link.
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This type of software is used to map the night sky from any location on the Earth. It most cases, the software below can print our star charts for a night of viewing and will have extensive databases with at least the most popular night sky objects.
- The SkyX by Software Bisque is probably the most popular planetarium software available. I also use version 6 of this software. The benefit of using TheSky is their extensive database, ability to remotely control a computerized telescope, and work seamlessly with their other popular product, CCDSoft. Their website also has a Hot Fix section for up to date software updates (you will have to register).
- The power of TheSky has come to OS X in the form of the new version of TheSky X student edition. TheSky X is now available in the The SkyX Serious Astronomer Edition are available for both OS X and Windows. Windows 7 and 64bit OS's are supported. The previous version, The Sky 6 Professional is still a well respected program that does run on 64bit operating systems but is a Windows only program.
- TheSky Pocket Edition provides access to the virtual sky from your Palm or Pocket PC. For the diehard astronomer, you can download and extended version of the SAO catalog as well.
- A free, open-source software called Stellarium is probably a good place to start.
- Another free planetarium software is Celestia. It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac. This software not only shows you the sky from Earth, but also allows you to 'fly' to other locations and view the sky from there.
- Google Earth is no longer limited to great satellite images of Earth, they have created color images of the space as well. They include Hubble images in places where they belong, and a cool feature is that you can switch the view based on where you live.
- Microsoft Research has put together an educational program that is nothing short of a breakthrough. The World Wide Telescope allows the user access to just about every image taken from just about every space probe there is. Better still, the user can change the view from radio through to x-ray (visible included of course). It's Windows only, its free so download it now.
- Keeping with the freeware theme, the third free bit of software is an up-and-coming simple yet capable sky charting program called Asynx Planetarium.
- Starry Night is a software that uses OpenGL and Quick Time to show a photo realistic night sky. It also provides telescope control. Updates for this software are available at their website, but newer versions allow updates through an application installed with the program.
- An old style DOS type software by Project Pluto called Guide 8 is also a pretty capable Windows based software as well. While it does not have the pizzazz associated with the 'modern' planetariums, it does have what I consider one of the best presentations of nebula. Guide updates are also available on the website.
- A specialized planetarium software called AstroMB is also available. I have no experience with this software, but it boasts a pretty impressive set of features - available for viewing at their website.
- SkyMap is another software title I am not familiar with, but it does seem to have a faithful following.
- Redshift is a program that used to be Macintosh only, and doesn't seem to want to go away. I used it many years ago and found it capable although I have no idea how the newer versions are compared to what is currently available.
- Sky Tools by CapellaSoft is a bit different from other planetarium software as it has an integrated notepad to store observing notes during observation. While I have no personal experience with this software, this also seems to have a faithful following.
- SkyChart III by Southern Stars is a planetarium software that is for both Windows and Macintosh.
- Voyager 4 by Carina Software - a Windows and OS X platform planetarium software, this provides the standard features expected in virtual sky and telescope control.
- Stellaris — A shareware program for the amateur astronomer
- Cartes du Ciel/SkyChart - a planetarium program boasting 16 different catalogs boasting its completeness over other software with the same feature. Supports Windows, Mac and Linux and has a few more catalog add-ons available.
- CyberSky 5 is a run of the mill planetarium program. It offers the standard features in that the night sky can be viewed at any date in time. While not the prettiest program out there, this serves two main purposes: it keeps the price down and speeds up the program. Most new programs use Open GL for that real sky look but comes at the ex pence of computer processor usage, graphics usage and memory usage. I tested this program and found it does what it is supposed to do. It is Windows only program but will run om XP, Vista, and 7 in both 32 bit and 64 bit modes.
- Planetensuche is a free program collection of astronomy software (database, formula collection, simulation, bioastronomy - the genesis of life, quiz and a distance calculator). Mainly Planetensuche engage about exoplanets - therefore the name (Planetensuche = planet search).
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These programs are not full featured planetariums, but specialize in specific objects.
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This will be the longest list as there are many of these types of programs available. I will keep the descriptions short for this list.
- CCDSoft - works in concert with TheSky for full camera and telescope control. Also provides the necessary image reduction, processing and stacking
- Mira Pro and Mira AP - professional level CCD software
- MaxImDL - a popular choice that offers CCD control and processing
- AIP4WIN - a popular choice that is really a book with included software
- Santa Barbara Instrument Groups software page - CCD software updates
- IRIS - a free and capable program for CCD control and processing
- Registar - specialized image stacking program
- RegiStax - free image stacking program, used mostly for planets
- K3CCDTools - provides video image stacking and image processing
- Fits4Win - Windows program to view FITS files
- AstroVideo - specialized video stacking program
- RC-Astro Console - Russell Croman's add-in for enhanced MaxImDL functionality
- SigmaReject - Another Russell Croman plug-in for MaxImDL
- RGB Weight Calculator - Specialized program that assists in determining ideal exposure time for various filtered images
- AstroArt 3.0 - 96bit image processing software
- ImagePlus - image converter and processor, useful for Digital SLR cameras
- Adobe PhotoShop - need I say more? The de-facto standard for the 'digital darkroom'
- Grain Surgery - clean up those messy images
- PixInsight - image enhancement
- NEAT Image - digital filter for noise reduction
- FitsPlug - FITS file plug-in for PhotoShop
- Irfanview - free image reader and basic processing, reads just about everything
- FITS Liberator - a free PhotoShop plugin by the folks from the ESA/ESO and NASA
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This next batch of software specializes in telescope control - either from another room or across the globe.
- TheSky with CCDSoft provide robotic control from a computer nearby.
- Want to improve your telescopes pointing accuracy? T-Point is a software that models your mounts accuracy and uses this model to improve pointing accuracy.
- Orchestrate is a software to automate imaging sessions - so you can get some sleep.
- For those with motorized domes, AutomaDome adds the ability to control the dome as well - moving the dome with the scope as well as opening and closing.
- Users of the Paramount can improve accuracy with PrecisionPEC.
- Have your cake and eat it too - the complete Bisque Observatory Software Suite.
- DC-3 Dreams - full suite of robotic observatory control, software updates available in their support pages
- PoleAlignMax - software to assist your computer control telescope to point to the north
- ASCOM - the communications standard for interface control in astronomy
- CCDWare - a new software company providing a variety of products used to assist in tracking accuracy and automatic control (with links to other software as well), imaging stacking, session planning and CCD inspection.
- SN Finder - This software automates supernova searches, designed by an amateur astronomer for amateur astronomers.
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The following software doesn't really fit in the above categories.
- Aberrator - software to assist in star testing a telescope
- Microsoft Service Packs - a nice website to know, has all current service packs for Microsoft products
- MSDN .Net Updates - for those Visual Studio .Net programmers, this is a valuable resource
- Astro Image Frame Maker - a utility designed to add borders and titles to astro images
- The KDE Education Project has a program called KStars that runs on Linux
- GlobularClusters - it can be very useful to amateur astronomers to better understand the effects of gravity in a star cluster and to make experiments “at home†by changing fundamental parameters such as concentration and diameter of a cluster or mass and velocity of individual stars.
- SpaceEngine - a free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
- Starblinker - allows you to easily search for new stars in your astronomical photos written by Marco Lorrai.
- Astromagic - The software allows the user to extract highly accurate astrometric measurements of sources from FITS images. In particular, its capabilities extend to frames exposed with non-sidereal tracking, and to images on which the target detection is elongated or trailed by Dott. David J. Tholen, Gianpaolo Pizzetti and Dr. Marco Micheli.
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- The power of TheSky has come to OS X in the form of TheSky X student edition. TheSky X is now available in the Serious Astronomer Edition as well as the Professional Edition - available for both OS X and Windows. What a wonderful thing!
- Seeker by Bisque - a 3D immersive tool for traveling through our Solar System - its available for OS X as well.
- Google Earth is no longer limited to great satellite images of Earth, they have created color images of the space as well. They include Hubble images in places where they belong, and a cool feature is that you can switch the view based on where you live.
- SkyChart III by Southern Stars is a planetarium software that is for both Windows and Macintosh.
- The only Mac OS X only planetarium software is Voyager 4 by Carina Software. While I have not seen it in action, it promises to be a very powerful program that also offers telescope control.
- Cosmographia - A beautiful Solar System simulator for the Mac available from the App Store
- Stark Labs - providers of Nebulosity (CCD control), PHD (guiding), DSLR Shutter control and a few others.
- Microsoft Research has put together an educational program that is nothing short of a breakthrough. The World Wide Telescope allows the user access to just about every image taken from just about every space probe there is. Better still, the user can change the view from radio through to x-ray (visible included of course). The program is Windows only, but Mac users can use the online version for free.
- NRAO Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS) - process radio images from the NRAO
- IRAF for Macintosh - Maciraf - allowing Mac users to use the absolute standard in professional astronomy
- Spitzer Science Center - Spot and Leopard (tools for planning and archiving)
- ESO's Scisoft - Data Reduction and Analysis
- SAOImage DS9 - FITS viewer
- MIIPS (Multipurpose Interactive Image Processing System) - image display, image analysis, plotting, and function fitting
- AstroGrav - Gravity Simulator
- OSXplanet - Solar System Desktop (real time data)
- LaTeXiT - LaTeX Typesetting Utilities
- SBIG (Santa Barbara Instrument Group) - drivers and software
- Equinox 6 - Planetarium, Telescopes and Camera Control that is geared towards SBIG CCD Cameras
- AstroYacker - Image Stacker
- Macam - Webcam Software
- AstroPlanner - Plan your observations, does logging too
- Astro IIDC - Camera Control for Firewire Cameras
- iAstroPhoto - Digital SLR Camera Control
- Astrostack - Image Stacker
- ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator - PhotoShop plugin
- Lynkeos - Webcam Image Processing
- ScopeDriver - Telescope Control
- Newton's Aquarium - Interactive Visualization of Newton's Law of Gravity
- FITS Liberator - a free PhotoShop plugin by the folks from the ESA/ESO and NASA
- INDI - Open source and free INDI server with easy to use and handsome graphical user interface.
Software for the iPhone/iPod/iPad - otherwise known as Apps:
- SkySafari Pro - planetarium and telescope control, huge database
- Star Walk - a best seller. It's a planetarium, can show you the area you are pointing your device as long as you have GPS, and offers some news and basic Solar System data
- Redshift - planetarium software
- Sky Master - planetarium software
- Solar Walk - from the makers of Star Walk. Solar System simulator
- Gas Giants - by Bisque. A virtual view of Jupiter and Saturn with real-time positions of their major moons
- Solar System -The Photographic Journey - image gallery of objects in our Solar System
- Mars Atlas - a map of Mars
- Moon Atlas - a map of our Moon
- Mercury Atlas - a map of Mercury
- Venus Atlas - a map of Venus
- Jupiter Atlas - a sort of map of Jupiter
- Saturn Atlas - a sort of map of Saturn
- 3D Sun - view 3D images of our Sun and receive alerts of real time Solar data such as sunspot activity and Solar storms
- AstronomyCalc - a calculator for basic conversions, date and time, coordinate conversions and Solar calculations
- Astronomy - a cool app that is an image gallery, lists past, current and future space missions, a history of Astronomy and a list of Stars and Constellations with basic visibility data
- NASA - of course NASA must have an app, and its a list of their missions, image gallery, news and NASA TV
- Go Star Gaze - a part of the Night Sky Network it offers a list of clubs and events, all up to date with updates when the program starts
- Sky View - an app that uses your devices camera to superimpose the constellations. Relies on GPS.
- Cosmic Clock - an app for Julian Date and Swatch Internet Time (beat time)
- APODViewer - view the Astronomy Photo of the Day as well as browse past entries
- Sky Week - by Sky and Telescope shows a list of interesting things to look at for each morning and evening
- Buzz Aldrin - an information packed app of myths and mysteries, the Space Race, exploration of the Moon and Mars and covers the Hubble. You do know who Buzz Aldrin is, right?
- Solar Monitor - an app that displays current Solar 'weather' and offers a forecast of Solar Winds for those who love to watch the Aurora
- Galaxy Zoo - have you heard of the SETI@Home screensaver? In the same vein, this allows the user to view images of very distant galaxies from the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) and assist in identifying galaxy type through a step-by-step category
- Exoplanet - a great app that is a database of known exoplanets. It also graphs out orbital position and distance from host star as well as how the discovery was made
- Kepler - just like Exoplanet with the database of exoplanets, but limits the list to discoveries made by the Kepler probe
- HubbleZoom - An image gallery of Hubble Space Telescope images, though not the best interface
- Gravilux - advertised as a game, this program is interesting as it uses the n-body equations to simulate a galaxy merger
- iCSC - the Clear Sky Chart for IOS
- iNEO - a list of asteroids closest to Earth
- Cosmic - The American Museum of Natural History app displaying a zoomable mosaic of Saturn comprised of hundred's of images
- Nebulae - an image gallery of nebula
- Our Solar System - an image gallery of Solar System images
- GoSkyWatch - planetarium software that uses GPS
- SkyQ - planetarium app by Celestron. Also includes planet rise and set times, Moon phases and the positions of the major moons of Saturn and Jupiter
- Distant Suns 3 - planetarium software with very nice database
- INDI - the mobile control panel for the remote INDI servers for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. It offers the same functionality as INDI Control Panel for OS X with iOS look & feel. The only limitation is, that it doesn't support BLOB transfer.
- Cosmic Watch - It's a clock which displays the Sun, Moon and Planets positions and can be used to demonstrate the apparent movements of the sky.
- Planetarium - the name says it all. It provides Sun, Moon and planet data as well as all ther constellations. It's database has 2.5 million stars, the 110 Messier objects, the Caldwell 110, 280 double-stars, the Herschel 400 and an additional 1000 deep space objects. And it has telescope control via serial port. Comets and asteroids are also available on the expandable database.
This list is by no means complete. These just happen to be the apps I use, have used or seen. If you know of any that should be listed here, please let me know.
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