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Planetarium alternatives

  • Celestia

  • Celestia is a free real-time 3D space simulation, allowing unrestricted access to hundreds of thousands of stars.

    tags: Portable simulation space astronomy stars
  • Sky Map

  • Sky Map (formerly the Google Sky Map) turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a window on the night sky. Figure out what you're looking at:Point your phone at the sky, and Sky Map will show the stars, planets, constellations, and more to help you identify the celestial objects in view. You can also browse the skies in manual mode.

    tags: augmented-reality astronomy stars planetarium star-map
  • NASA World Wind

  • World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

    tags: elevation geographic historical-imagery image-navigation image-upscaling
  • KStars

  • KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.

    tags: astronomy stars zodiac planetarium star-mapping
  • StarCalc

  • StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC is available). It illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth. The star positions can be viewed and presented as images of hemispherical whole sky or any of the user defined sub-areas. These images can be zoomed at different scales, rotated, screen-captured and printed. Also, StarCalc has many other functions of calculation and showing of sky objects. »

    tags: Discontinued astronomy stars star-mapping
  • SkyView

  • SkyView is powerful, easy-to-use app that answers questions about stars, constellations, and more. Simply point the camera to the sky, tap on what you see and discover neat things about these sky objects. SkyView is unique as it blends the camera view with incredible 3D graphics of the sky objects to provide an Augmented Reality (AR) view of your sky.

    tags: educational 3d-graphics augmented-reality astronomy sky-map
  • Cosmic-Watch

  • Discover the fascinating relation between time and the cosmos. Enjoy this interactive learning tool and understand the concept of the celestial sphere and the apparent movement of the sky.

    tags: astronomy astrology sky-map cosmos space-photography
  • SkyORB

  • SkyORB is more than a simple star map, it's a collection of 7 tools including a 3D star map, 3D planetarium, ephemeris, search engine, sun clock, point to sky, weather, and more.

    tags: educational 3d-graphics augmented-reality astronomy stars
  • Gaia Sky

  • Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation software that runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).

    tags: 3d-animation astronomy educational galaxy sciences
  • Star Chart

  • Can’t see the moon? Want to know where it is? Look through the eyes of your device to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.

    tags: augmented-reality constellations google-glass gps oculus-rift-support
  • Starmap

  • Starmap is an intelligent sky navigation tool, written by a professional of the field.

    tags: educational augmented-reality astronomy stars sky-map