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Package Name Pro. Am. Interface Connects to Online (e.g. VO) Data Displays or Manip. FITS Images Tiled Multi-Resolution All-Sky image Handling Displays
If you happen to have a good telescope of at least 200x magnification, you can get a closer view of some of the red planet’s most extraordinary features. Some of those being the southern polar ...
Stellarium is a free and open-source planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android , iOS , and Symbian as a paid version, being developed by Noctua Software.
WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is an open-source set of applications, data and cloud services, [4] [5] originally created by Microsoft Research but now an open source project hosted on GitHub. [6] The .NET Foundation holds the copyright and the project is managed by the American Astronomical Society and has been supported by grants from the Moore ...
Planetarium software is application software that allows a user to simulate the celestial sphere at any time of day, especially at night, on a computer.Such applications can be as rudimentary as displaying a star chart or sky map for a specific time and location, or as complex as rendering photorealistic views of the sky.
Mars will reach opposition on Dec. 8, making Thursday night one of the best nights of 2022 to see the planet glow in the sky. Opposition is when Mars is on the opposite.
As of 2018, beta testing builds of version 1.7.0 are available, [16] [17] as well as the bugfix releases 1.6.2 [18] and 1.6.3, [19] which were released in 2020 and 2023 respectively. Celestia was ported to mobile devices in 2020, and it continues to receive updates and experimental beta versions. [20]
The green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was found in March 2022 by astronomers from the Zwicky Transient Facility. Researchers used ZTF’s robotic camera and software developed by staff scientist Frank ...