Astronomy software Astronomy software The Aladin Sky Atlas is a Java-based star atlas for astromers. Unlike most other astronomy software such as Starry Nights, Distant Suns or Celestia, the Aladin Sky Atlas retrives unretouched photographs of stars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aladin Sky Atlas"
ASCOM (originally the Astronomy Common Object Model) is a set of software interface standards utilizing Microsoft's Component Object Model technology. The ASCOM standards define a way of writing device drivers for telescopes, ccd cameras, telescope focusers, and astronomical observatory domes or enclosures that insures these drivers interoperate with each other and with non-driver software. ...more on Wikipedia about "Astronomy Common Object Model"
Celestia is a free 3D astronomy program for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. Created by Chris Laurel, it is licensed under the GNU General Public License. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celestia"
RealSky is the name of a commercially available, digital photographic sky atlas. It is a subset of the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) and was published in 1996 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. ...more on Wikipedia about "RealSky"
Starry Night is a commercial planetarium software program, available for Windows and Mac OS X. The software makes it possible to view the night sky from any location on Earth, or any position in the local universe, such as the Local Group. It allows for any date and time thousands of years in the past and the future. ...more on Wikipedia about "Starry Night (planetarium software)"
Stellarium is a free software planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It uses OpenGL to render a supposedly realistic three-dimensional sky in real time. With Stellarium, it's possible to see what one can see with the naked eye, binoculars or a small telescope. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stellarium"
Winstars is a planetarium freeware ( closed-source) for Microsoft Windows, written by Franck Richard, that needs Microsoft DirectX (DirectX 9c for Winstar 2). ...more on Wikipedia about "Winstars"
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