- SkyChart
http://www.southernstars.com/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]
- SkyMap
http://www.skymap.com/
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]
- Stella 2000 Astronomy Software
http://www.stella2000.com
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 Telescope", "Cosmology", "Dark Matter", "The History of Astronomy", and others. Uses Microsoft Agent speech technology to correctly pronounce over 300 star names. [Shareware - Win95/98/Me/XP/NT/2000]
- Stellaris Software
http://www.stellaris-software.com
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.
- Stellarium
http://stellarium.free.fr
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 ]
- The Sky
http://www.bisque.com/
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]
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