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Cartes du Ciel ("CDC" and "SkyChart") is a free and open source planetarium program for Linux, macOS, and Windows. [2] With the change to version 3, Linux has been added as a target platform, licensing has changed from freeware to GPLv2 and the project moved to a new website.
Skyglobe is an astronomy program for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows first developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s and sold as Shareware. [1] It plots the positions of stars, Messier objects, planets, sun and moon. [2] [3]
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.
Star Walk is an educational astronomy smartphone app developed by Vito Technology which allows users to explore celestial objects in real-time. The application was released in 2009 and is compatible with iOS, Android, and Windows devices. Star Walk has been downloaded by over 10 million users worldwide ever since its release. [1]
KStars is a free and open-source planetarium program built using the KDE Frameworks.It is available for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.A light version of KStars is available for Android devices.
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.
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
A star chart drawn 5000 years ago by the Indians in Kashmir, which also depict a supernova for the first time in human history. [7] The Nebra sky disk , a 30 cm wide bronze disk dated to 1600 BC, bears gold symbols generally interpreted as a sun or full moon, a lunar crescent, several stars including the Pleiades cluster and possibly the Milky Way.