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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.
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.
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]
KStars participated in Google Summer of Code in 2008, [4] 2009, [5] 2010, [6] 2011 [7] 2012, [8] 2015 [9] and 2016. [10] It has also participated in the first run of ESA's Summer of Code in Space in 2011. [11] It has been identified as one of the three best "Linux stargazing apps" in a Linux.com review. [12]
Gaia Sky is an open-source astronomy visualisation desktop and VR program with versions for Windows, Linux and macOS.It is created and developed by Toni Sagristà Sellés in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to create a billion-star multi-dimensional map of our Milky Way Galaxy, in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).
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.
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]
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