Find window — Easily locate any object by name, catalog number and many other designations. Chart Elements window — Lets you turn on and off, or filter by upper and lower magnitude or angular size, elements on the Sky Chart, including:.
Non-stellar objects Type C, elliptical, lenticular, spiral, irregular galaxies and clusters of galaxies; bright, dark and planetary nebulas; open and globular clusters and clusters plus nebulosity; probable NGC stars, other NGC objects. Stellar objects stars, double stars, suspected variables and variables.
Labels window — Turn on and off the names of objects, including:. Photos window — Show color or black and white photographs for thousands of deep-sky objects. Each tab represents a separate window that can be moved and sized to your liking.
Simple Find. A list of common names that match the letters you type appears automatically. Object Information reports are configurable to show as much, or as little information as you need. Click on any object, or use the Find command to show extensive information on celestial objects, including:. The table below lists the typical information displayed for different classifications of objects.
Deep-space objects. Comets, Minor Planets, Satellites. Planets, Sun, Moon. Select Different Photographs for the Panoramic Horizon. Choose from several supplied custom panoramic horizons, including:. Reference Lines and Reference Photos. Show the following reference lines and reference photos. Object Name Labels. TheSky can show the names and labels for the following:. Adjust the appearance of the stars by:. Tool bars positioned around the Star Chart.
Six standard tool bars contain buttons to access many frequently used commands. You can also add your own custom tool bars for the commands you use most. The size of the buttons on the tool bars are configurable, as well as the content of the buttons show a graph, or text or both on the button. The position of the tool bars can be customized. Show them as floating windows, or drag and drop them anywhere along the edges Star Chart window. Chart Status window with configurable report.
Chart with optional scroll bars turned on. Automatically adjust the star chart for your location to look North, South, East, West or straight up at the Zenith. Zoom Box. The size or field width and the angular separation between the corners of the zoom box is shown.
Custom Field of View window. Built-in command to show the following fields of view:. Or, define any number of custom fields of view using the Custom Fields of View dialog. Navigate to any coordinate using the Screen Center tab on the Navigate window. Navigate the Celestial Sphere. Custom Time Flow Increments and Rates window. Calender control to set any date. The control also displays the phases of the moon for each month.
The default increments include:. Choose your location on Earth. Earth Map tab on the Location window. By default, your location on earth is detected automatically from the web. Select your location from a list of over cities, star parties, observatories and other sites on the List of Locations tab.
Select your location by clicking on a map of the Earth. Create Solar System Object Paths. Mercury morning visibility in The screen to the left shows the position of Mercury each evening for one year. When is the next solar eclipse? Where it visible on Earth? TheSky shows every solar eclipse for the next twenty years or so from the current date starting from any date. Select an eclipse from the list and the three-dimensional view of the Earth gives the local circumstances:.
Annular, total central, annular central, partial, or hybrid designation. These catalogs have all you need to explore space including millions of stars, comets, asteroids, NGC objects and Meisser objects. The software displays the phase and location of the moon, location of earth satellites, and day and night earth regions. With this software, you can make your own sky chart using the data provided.
It has advanced features to help you make a complete sky map making it a good bet for stargazers. Winstars Winstars is yet another free software for stargazers. It has a database of more than 2 million stars and a catalog of thousands of star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies.
The software makes it possible for you to view a 3D map showing the celestial objects in the solar system and has information about each object. WinOrbit WinOrbit: Satellite Tracking software will compute, display and tell the whereabouts of artificial earth satellites, including information on their distance, bearing and elevation. If you want to compile development versions of Stellarium, this is the place to get the source code.
Stellarium is produced by the efforts of the developer team, with the help and support of the following people and organisations.
Linux source. Linux snap. Linux 64 bit; AppImage. Mac OS X It is way different from any mainstream planetarium software, as it simulates a travel to the object you want to view. To find an object, use the Search tool, which gives a list of explorable objects as you type a keyword. There are various exciting tools available which will make you fall in love with this software.
One of these tools is Spacecraft Manager. This tool lets you build your own spacecraft, and travel to places in space with it. For the selected object, you can view its universe map.
You can save a location to visit later. While viewing an object, you can change lighting angle to get a clear view. Use the mouse to zoom, move object, and use keyword shortcuts to perform various actions.
Get the user manual to find out more about the software and its tools. Space Engine also requires dedicated graphics card to run smoothly. The minimum graphics card requirement is 1 GB. Visit homepage to view other minimum specifications required to run this planetarium software. Asynx Planetarium is a very simple planetarium software. It lets you take a view at the sky and displays all the visible stars and planets according to your location and current time.
You can also change location and time manually to view the sky. You can locate a star or a planet, then click on it to view its details, such as: name, type, constellation, spectrum, mag, altitude, azimuth, etc.
There are various viewing modes to take a look at the sky: Horizontal view, Geocentric view, and Heliocentric view. You can even run animation of sky movement in different speeds. Capture the sky as image, change star density, search for a constellation, and do much more. It is a simple planetarium software with very basic features, and can be used for elementary astrology studies.
C2A is another free software to view stars, planets, and deep space objects. It has a simple and intuitive interface with tonnes of tools and options to let you study astronomy.
Along with planets, galaxies, stars, constellations, it also includes asteroid and comet data. While exploring the sky, a double click on any object displays various information about it.
Navigation is pretty easy, and the availability of Find tool makes it even easier to locate an object in the sky. Just like most of the planetarium software, you can view the sky map from any location on earth for any given time: past, present, or future.
A telescope hand controller tool is available, which lets you manually zoom in and focus on to an object you want to view. The display options let you customize the sky the way you want to view it. Aciqra is a very simple planetarium software to let you explore the space. The interface is very minimalist and has few but ample tools to let you view objects in the space, such as planets, stars, nebulae, and deep space objects. You can separately highlight and view stars, constellations, solar system, etc.
A Search tool is also available, which will help you look for objects in space. Click on an object to view a brief info about it. It also has a night mode. OpenUniverse is a very interesting planetarium tool. It lets you view objects in our Solar System by setting a Source and Target. This means, you can get a view from one object of our Solar System to another object. There are various camera modes available, which let you view the target objects from different perspectives.
It has various hotkeys to ease the task of navigation. Go visit the User Manual Page to know about them.
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