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- Project Pluto - Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT]
- 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]
- 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.
- 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]
- Neave Planetarium - Virtual planetarium customizable by location (latitude and longitude) and time of day.
- RedShift - Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial]
- SKYLab Astronomy Software - Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP]
- 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.
- Navigator Light - Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows]
- 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.
Wikipedia Articles
- Flash charting - Flash charting software, or technique, or components is a way for web and desktop application developers to built animated, interactive charts with Flash platform.
- KStars - KStars is a planetarium program for the KDE desktop for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides an accurate graphical representation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time.
- IRIX Interactive Desktop - IRIX Interactive Desktop (originally called Indigo Magic) is a desktop environment normally used as the default desktop on Silicon Graphics workstations running IRIX. The IRIX Interactive Desktop uses the Motif widget toolkit on top of the X Window System found on most Unix systems.
- Silesian Planetarium - Silesian Planetarium (Polish: Planetarium Śląskie) - biggest and the oldest planetarium and astronomical observatory in Poland was founded in 4 December 1955 to commemorate a great astronomer - Nicolaus Copernicus. Situated in the Silesian culture and refreshment park in Katowice and Chorzów districts of Silesia.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), formerly Novell Linux Desktop, is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution supplied by Novell and targeted at the business market.