Top Astronomy Software Sites

Deepsky Astronomy Software. Star charts, observing log, planning, database, telescope control, imaging, spreadsheet and incredible DVD space images. Control your meade telescope with Deepsky! Steve - Just wanted to send a quick word of praise for your amazing Deepsky software. It's one of those packages that just opens up into new surprises every time I run it. It shows in every corner the...

CyberSky has a versatile animation feature that lets you watch astronomical events unfold at whatever pace you desire. This feature is not only a lot of fun, it makes the program very well-suited for astronomy education. Many of the most basic and interesting astronomical phenomena can only be seen over weeks, months, or even years, or by observing the sky from widely separated locations on the...

Skyhound is a developer of innovative software for astronomy. Our primary product is SkyTools 3, designed as an aid for astronomical observing. SkyTools 3 is software designed from the ground up for observing. SkyTools 3 includes a complete set of software tools for observation planning, charting, and logging. The SkyTools 3 Professional Edition adds unique and powerful tools for imaging and an...

Voyager is the advanced version of our software, designed for the serious astronomer, student, telescope user. View the heavens on your computer from any place on Earth, in the Solar System, or beyond. Witness celestial events thousands of years in the past or future. Display millions of stars, clusters, nebulae, and galaxies visible only through powerful telescopes. We support a wide variety...

Worldwide Telescope enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best telescopes in the world. From the International Space Station to flights over craters on Earth, the Moon, Mars and Mercury - you will learn how impacts have shaped our Solar System. WorldWide Telescope used to visualize orbit for possible new Planet Nine. Learn more and find out...

3D space software — a virtual star map of our Milky Way galaxy sector. Showing 3D locations of more than 100 nearby planets and thousands of stars. Alien sky views. Scalable, selectable, tagable. Name your own stars. If you like exploring the stars, you'll love this software. Unlike any other, this gives you a chance to customize your exploration. You can zoom in and out, filter out star types...

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Celestron Telescopes manufactures telescope parts, optics, astrophotography, binoculars, spotting scopes and digital microscopes for serious and amateur astronomers and hobbyists. Witness one of the greatest astronomical spectacles in our lifetimes and in US history. The total Solar eclipse of 2017 will captivate the country from coast to coast – don’t miss out! Bookmark this page to keep...

Our RSpec software is a program that enables you to rapidly go from a FITS, DSLR, or video image to a calibrated spectrum graph – in real-time. Now you can see a star or planet’s spectrum graph instantly, right at your telescope! No more waiting until later to see if you got the spectrum you hoped for. Getting started in spectroscopy is easy. Use our inexpensive Star Analyser grating (link) or...

Explanation: These three bright nebulae are often featured on telescopic tours of the constellation Sagittarius and the crowded starfields of the central Milky Way. In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the large nebula above and left of center, and colorful M20 near the bottom of the frame. The third emission region includes NGC 6559, right of M8 and...

Video astronomy software semi-live and live viewing, mount control and focuser control via ASCOM. AstroLive powers the Aloha Explorer project, a joint K-12 outreach effort by Georgia Tech and the Air Force, remotely operating an observatory in Maui, Hawaii using AstroLive. Home of AstroLive, the state of the art real-time video astronomy processing software! Video astronomy and near real-time...

That does mean there aren’t too many new features in this one. The main changes are partial support for the Celestron Neximage cameras and potentially Imaging Source USB2 CMOS cameras, support for the cooler controls in ZWO ASI cameras and support for Point Grey GigE cameras. There are also bugfixes for the ARM7 build, Point Grey IIDC cameras, the limit selection box not functioning intuitively...

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Nightshade is simulation and visualization software for teaching and exploring astronomy, Earth science, and related topics. Download this incredible software for free. Nightshade NG is in Beta release for planetarium users and is our focus of development. The above slideshow is from Nightshade NG. We are now starting to get feedback from users of preview versions of Nightshade NG for...

Satellite Safari is your tour guide to the universe of satellites that humanity has launched into orbit around our home planet. Satellite Safari will tell you where to find them in the sky, when they'll pass overhead, and where they are orbiting over Earth right now. Satellite Safari for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is available today on the iTunes Store. The app is universal for both iPhone...

A site about backyard-astronomy or amateur astronomy with data about telescopes, binoculars, astronomy books, astronomy software, observing logs, observing lists, astronomy links, the deepsky, deepsky sketches, logs and observing lists. Backyard-astro.com uses frames.

Computes and tabulates the dates of visibility phenomena: for planets and stars first and last visibility, acronychal rising and cosmical setting; for the moon first and last visibility, and the tables provide much supplementary information. These phenomena are very useful for historical purposes. Since the computation of visibility phenomena is complex and uncertain, alternate methods are...