Astronomy
A simple java 3d virtual celestial globe.
Rotate the globe, magnify it, select the level of detail to show stars and constellations, and the ecliptic.
Source code available to everyone to modify it.No Open GL. Star catalogue from Wikipedia.
Available plain text star catalogue.
Platforms: Windows XP, Linux, Java
Keyword: 3d, Celestial, Globe, Java, Star, Stars, Virtual
License: Freeware | Size: 375.98 KB | Download (62): Virtual Celestial Globe Download |
Stellaris is a very comprehensive astronomy suite that goes far beyond displaying the nightly sky. Showing the positions of stars, planets, and Deep Sky objects for an arbitrary time and location is just one feature of many.
The application's wide range of features addresses all users, from...
Platforms: Windows XP, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows Vista
Keyword: Astronomical, Astronomy, Educate, Event, Forecast, Graph, Image, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Moon, Neptune, Ngc, Phenomena, Picture, Planet, Planets, Report, Saturn, Shareware, Solar System, Star, Stars, Sun, Uranus
License: Shareware | Cost: $20.00 USD | Size: 22.79 MB | Download (92): Stellaris Download |
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. CyberSky can display and print attractive, highly-customizable maps of the sky as seen from...
Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Keyword: Astronomy, Constellations, Planets, Sky Charts, Sky Maps, Star Charts, Star Gazing, Star Maps, Stars
License: Shareware | Cost: $34.95 USD | Size: 7.69 MB | Download (134): CyberSky Download |
Satellite Tracking Software that allows you to track the International Space Station and other satellites in real time. Easy to use. Radar system alerts you to satellites that is within viewing range.
Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
Keyword: International Space Station, Iss, Satellite Tracking, Space
License: Freeware | Size: 977.54 KB | Download (220): DESA Satellite Tracker Download |
In cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy which permeates all of space and has strong negative pressure. According to the theory of relativity, the effect of such a negative pressure is qualitatively similar to a force acting in opposition to gravity at
large scales. Invoking...
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista
Keyword: Dark, Energy, Matter, Screensaver
License: Freeware | Size: 539.19 KB | Download (360): Dark Solar System Download |
An accurate simulation of the solar system, including all planets, major moons, all visible stars, and constellations. Multiple views and features. Home in on selected planets, or fly to distant stars quickly and easily. Support for any latitude and longitude on Earth. Includes an integrated...
Platforms: Windows Vista
Keyword: Astronomy, Constellations, Solar System, Stars, Telescope
License: Freeware | Size: 1.58 MB | Download (168): SolarMax Download |
Using the same standards of accuracy as published tables but with a catalogue extending beyond Barnard's Star; it can be used as a sight calculator, a definative astronomical reference or simply to print daily Nautical Almanac pages.
Multiple sights can be plotted/ combined while allowing...
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Keyword: Almanac, Astronomical, Astronomy, Celestial, Eclipses, Nautical, Navigation, Sextant, Stars, Voyage Plan
License: Shareware | Cost: $32.00 USD | Size: 8.46 MB | Download (122): AstroNav Download |
A comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking package. It allows you to view: An earth map, showing day and night regions, location of the Moon and current phase, and position of a selected earth satellite. Panel showing positions of planets and a selected asteroid or comet, both...
Platforms: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.x
Keyword: Astronomy, Home, Orrery, Planet, Planetarium
License: Freeware | Size: 7 MB | Download (225): Home Planet Download |
Stellarium is a free Open Source planetarium, it renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulas and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc. It can be used in planetarium projectors, just set your coordinates and go. It...
Platforms: *nix, Windows XP
License: Freeware | Size: 38.7 MB | Download (89): Stellarium Download |
Equator is a word-processor-like editor specifically designed for use in high school and college-level algebra-based physics courses. Equator helps high school and college physics students to easily navigate the algebra. The program integrates a math editor, drawing palette, formula reference...
Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OSX
License: Shareware | Cost: $139.95 USD | Size: 487 KB | Download (156): Equator - The Physics Homework Editor Download |
Moonphase - displays the current moon phase of the current day as an icon in the Activity field. You can change the time zone, latitude and longitude (just click on the map) to get a more accurate moon rise and set time and also the sunrise and sunset. A little bonus: If you like to fish, mark...
Platforms: Windows XP
License: Freeware | Size: 1.45 MB | Download (205): Moonphase Download |
Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility presents a 3-color diagram that shows when a planet, a star, the moon or the sun is visible during any year from 3000 BC to AD 6000 at any location on the earth. The vertical axis marks the months of the year, the horizontal axis marks the hours of the...
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP
License: Freeware | Size: 5.8 MB | Download (170): Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility Download |
MB Free Muhurtha Astrology is a 'Vedic Electional Astrology' software which finds out the auspicious time of any activity based on the calculations of Vedic astrology. The software gives you a detailed Report for the choice of your time for an auspicious occasion. It also gives you information...
Platforms: Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
Keyword: Muhurtha Astrology Software, Winamp
License: Freeware | Size: 1.95 KB | Download (298): MB Free Muhurtha Astrology Download |
Msetimon is an OpenSource graphical package to monitor seti activity that may be running on multiple computers over a network or multiple instances on the same computer. If you do not have multiple PCs Msetimon is great for Monitoring SETI@home activity for a single client while saving space on...
Platforms: *nix, Windows XP
License: Freeware | Size: 1.5 MB | Download (130): Multi SETI@home Monitor Download |
SETI Monitor is a free add-on for SETI@home. It allows you to monitor the activity of your SETI@home client and see what it finds using virtually no CPU power. SETI Monitor shows the signals found by your SETI@home client and saves information about completed work units. You can see the signals...
Platforms: Windows XP
License: Freeware | Size: 200 KB | Download (88): SETI Monitor Download |
This is a simple program that displays a map of the north celestial pole, it can be configured to show the same view as your polar alignment telescope. PolarView's main purpose is for accurate polar alignment in the field. All good astronomers will know that the pole star 'Polaris' or the 'North...
Platforms: Windows XP
License: Freeware | Size: 74 KB | Download (160): Polar View Download |
rolling advanced 3D solar system with all eight planets, dwarf planet Pluto and some big moons orbit. If you have a very fast computer - set 'True Worlds'-option 'On', and you will not be disappointed. You can manually select view of planet or moon and the camera takes you there. It includes...
Platforms: Windows XP
License: Freeware | Size: 22.1 MB | Download (207): 3D Solar System Download |
The purpose of this program is to prepare different sky maps for a particular observation. A large number of parameters help you to choose specifically or automatically which catalogs to use, the colour and the dimension of stars and nebulae, the representation of planets, the display of labels...
Platforms: Windows XP
Keyword: Asteroids, Astronomy, Atlas, Catalogs, Catalogues, Comets, Galaxy, Gcs, Map, Nebulae, Observation, Planetarium, Planets, Position, Sky Charts, Software, Stars, Wds, Winamp
License: Freeware | Size: 15 MB | Download (233): Cartes du Ciel-Sky Charts Download |
The Sky Screen Saver shows the sky above any location on Earth, including stars (from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue of more than 9000 stars to the 7th magnitude), the Moon in its correct phase and position in the sky, and the position of the Sun and all the planets in the sky. Outlines,...
Platforms: Windows XP
Keyword: Astronomy, John, Planetarium, Saver, Screen, Sky, Walker, Winamp, Windows
License: Freeware | Size: 183 KB | Download (134): Sky Screen Saver Download |
WJO What's Up is the answer for observers wanting to look at all those fuzzies but unsure what is above the horizon, high enough in the sky to be worth looking at and bright enough to see/image with your scope. No need to prepare lists, just get out there and observe. The lazy person's ultimate...
Platforms: Windows XP
License: Freeware | Size: 216 KB | Download (112): WJO What's Up Download |