Sky Maps and Atlases :: Amateur

Home Planet - A comprehensive space and astronomy package, with satellite-tracking capabilities. [freeware - Win95/NT]
Meta Description: [ Home Planet for Windows ]

Stella 2000 Astronomy Software - Astronomy suite comprising planetarium with scintillation and live tracking, realtime Sky Quiz, observing log and telescope optics, along with an HTML guide to the solar system. The software also integrates a dictionary of 1000 astronomical terms and a book-length primer containing topics like What are the Stars?Choosing a TelescopeCosmologyDark MatterThe History of Astronomy, and others. Uses Microsoft Agent speech technology to correctly pronounce over 300 star names. [Shareware - Win95/98/Me/XP/NT/2000]
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AstroViewer: Quick Orientation in the Night Sky - The AstroViewer planetarium applet shows a sky map for any time and any location on Earth. Individual printable sky maps (GIF, PDF) may be created.
Meta Description: [ Find planets, stars and constellations quickly and easily in the night sky with the AstroViewer night sky map ]

404 Bubba's Bits - Offers the picoSky cellular telephone planetarium application which runs on most phones that allow Java game downloads.
Meta Description: [ The home page for Bubba's Bits. A software development and publishing corporation specializing in cellular telephone software for amateur astronomers. ]

Celestial Sphere: Online Virtual Planetarium - A sophisticated java applet showing 9000+ stars, planets, and messier objects.
Meta Description: [ A java based planetarium applet featuring the planets, deep space objects, and over 9000 stars., A java based planetarium applet featuring the planets, deep space objects, and over 9000 stars. ]

Coeli Astronomy Software - Complete line of PC astronomy software, including Stella 2000 - talking astronomy suite with encyclopedic reference, logbook, orrery, and planetarium with telescope control. Free astronomy software gifts on offer here. [shareware,freeware,commercial - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP]
Meta Description: [ Astronomy software classics free with THE PC astronomy suite? Yes, you've found all the software downloads you were searching for and more! ]

CyberSky - displays the stars, constellations, deep sky objects, Sun, Moon, and planets as visible from any location on Earth at any given time, with optional animation. [shareware - Win95/98/NT]
Meta Description: [ CyberSky is an accurate, yet easy-to-use planetarium program that provides an excellent way to learn about astronomy and explore the sky visible in the distant past, the present, and the far-off future. ]

Data Services - from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Online forms provide sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and twilight times for one day or one year; moon phases, eclipse charts, and data for major solar system bodies and bright stars.
Meta Description: [ Data Services provided by the AA Department ]

Deep Space - observer-oriented star mapping and telescope control software. [commercial, demo available - DOS]

DeepSkyLive - A free online planetarium JAVA-applet for producing detailed finder charts for 10,000s of deep-sky objects. Stars to magnitude 11.5 and deep-sky objects to magnitude 16.5 may be viewed and printed.

404 DeskNite - Live Celestial Wallpaper - turns your Windows Desktop into the night sky as viewed from your own back yard, no matter what the time or which part of the world you live in. [Freeware - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000]
Meta Description: [ Coeli - DeskNite(tm). Dynamic astronomical wallpaper for the Windows desktop. DeskNite is FREE. Click to download and learn about another innovative astronomy freeware package for your PC. Now Windows itself is your window on the stars. ]

Distant Suns - Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
Meta Description: [ Distant Suns 6 - Explore the infinity ]

Dutch Occultation Association - Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ).
Meta Description: [ Promotes observations of celestial occultation phenomena in the Netherlands. ]

EasySky - Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.

Hallo Northern Sky - planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC CD-ROMs. [Freeware - Win95]
Meta Description: [ HNSKY Planetarium program for windows. With 26000 deepsky object and 2.5 million Tycho stars. Free! Can access GSC and UCAC2. Also a free REALSKY/DSS viewer and BMP to FITS convertor ]

HyperSky - an astronomical data display engine allowing full control over what objects are displayed, with hypertext-like information about those objects. Beginning to show its age. The demo uses a DOS installer which failed to work on this reviewer's system. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]

Jovian Satellite Simulator - JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT]

Lunar Map Pro - Lunar Map Pro is astronomy software for amateur observers of the Moon. It has over 13000 features with full search data base of all the known craters including NASA Apollo landing sites.[commercial]
Meta Description: [ lunar map pro: high resolution lunar software ]

LunarPhase Pro - Lunar observer's toolkit with real time moon simulation including libration. Identify lunar features; zoom, pan and print moon maps; monthly lunar ephemeris; many charts, diagrams and printouts.

404 Mars Explorer - Interactive 3D exploration and navigation over the Mars surface. Game is compatible with Mac OS X operating systems.

MegaStar Sky Atlas - resource for deep-sky observing. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
Meta Description: [ MegaStar Sky Atlas Software ]

MyStars! - planetarium program generating accurate charts, with stars, planets, comets, and asteroids. Orrery views make it a useful teaching tool. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]

Navigator Light - Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows]
Meta Description: [ Celestial and Chart navigation software. Online star finder. Online Nautical Almanac. ]

500 Perseus Astronomy Simulation Software - Perseus is a complete, powerful and fast desktop planetarium. Software features very good graphics, real deep technology, 3D solar system objects, scripting function for lecturers, plus ASCOM support. Italian and english versions are available.

Planet Finder - rudimentary display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet]
Meta Description: [ Planet Finder: An applet that shows the positions of the planets in the night sky. ]

Planet's Orbits - a multi-feature digital orrery. [Shareware - Windows 95/98/ME]
Meta Description: [ a digital orrery with a wealth of functionality ]

Planisphere - Displays appropriate sky area on monitor for any date. [Freeware - Windows]

Power Age - basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x]
Meta Description: [ Planetarium software for Windows ]

Project Pluto - Guide - Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT]

RedShift - Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial]
Meta Description: [ xxx ]

SkyChart - planetarium program displaying the sky from anywhere on Earth, in the solar system, or in the Milky Way, and for any point in time in the future or past. It supports numerous telescope computer controllers. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95/NT, Mac]

SKYLab Astronomy Software - Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP]

SkyMap - a CD-ROM planetarium and star-charting program equally suited to both the casual stargazer and the serious amateur or professional astronomer, although its feature list will appeal especially to the more advanced user. [Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT]

SkyTools - Observation planning, charting logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT]

Solarark - Planet2010 high accuracy astronomy software using VSOP87 planetary theory for calculating the positions of all of the planets within our solar system. Software is accurate for years between 1900 and 2100 (commercial - win95,98,NT,win2000,XP).
Meta Description: [ High accuracy astronomy softwares for the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and all the planets of the solar system. The softwares bases on the VSOP87 planetary theory ]

Starmap - Interactive night sky plotter. [freeware - Windows]

Starry Night - Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows/Macintosh]

StarTrax and StarShow - displays stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and star clusters, with animations and a screen saver. [Shareware - DOS/Win 3.x]

Stellaris Software - Stellaris is an astronomy shareware program. It includes simulations of the night sky (including NGC objects) and solar system. It also plots user-definable graphs, displays space images and comes with various utilites such as an astronomical calculator.
Meta Description: [ Stellaris Astronomy software ]

Stellarium - basic planetarium designed to show the sky as seen from any place on Earth at any date. Accuracy has been sacrificed for the sake of photorealism. Uses the HR catalog of 9000 stars. This reviewer encountered hardware incompatibility problems, despite the appropriate specs. [Freeware Win 95/98/2000 and Linux, + 3D Card with OpenGL support ]
Meta Description: [ Stellarium is planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free. ]

SunClock by Andrea Esuli - Shows the daylight face of the Earth, the position of the Sun, the position of the Moon and its phase. [freeware - Windows 9x/NT/2k/XP]
Meta Description: [ Andrea Esuli's website ]

ThatsCatchy.com - Home of Scorpius 2005 Personal Planetarium which features highly realistic rendering of the night sky and deep space objects based on astronomical photographs. Software requires that the Java Runtime Environment be installed.
Meta Description: [ Great Looking High Quality Astronomy Software. ]

The Earth Centered Universe - planetarium and telescope control program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]

The Sky - planetarium program showing you the sky on any date, from any place on earth. Has features to benefit a wide range of interest levels, from the beginning hobbyist to the seasoned professional. [commercial, Win98/NT, MacOS]

XEphem - Interactive astronomy program for Unix systems with X Windows and Motif. [open source - Unix]