Desktop Planetarium and Charting

AstroViewer: Quick Orientation in the Night Sky - The AstroViewer planetarium applet shows a sky map for any time and any location on Earth. Individual printable sky maps (GIF, PDF) may be created.
www.astroviewer.com

Bubba's Bits - Offers the picoSky cellular telephone planetarium application which runs on most phones that allow Java game downloads.
www.bubbasbits.com/

Celestial Sphere: Online Virtual Planetarium - A sophisticated java applet showing 9000+ stars, planets, and messier objects.
www.pcsapo.com/csphere/csphere.html

Coeli Astronomy Software - Complete line of PC astronomy software, including Stella 2000 - talking astronomy suite with encyclopedic reference, logbook, orrery, and planetarium with telescope control. Free astronomy software gifts on offer here. [shareware,freeware,commercial - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP]
www.coeli.com

CyberSky - Displays the stars, constellations, deep sky objects, Sun, Moon, and planets as visible from any location on Earth at any given time, with optional animation. [shareware - Win98/2000/XP/Vista]
www.cybersky.com/

Data Services - from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Online forms provide sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and twilight times for one day or one year; moon phases, eclipse charts, and data for major solar system bodies and bright stars.
aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/

Deep Space - observer-oriented star mapping and telescope control software. [commercial, demo available - DOS]
www.davidchandler.com/dspace.htm

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.
users.telenet.be/deepskylive/

DeskNite - Turns your Windows desktop into the night sky as viewed from your own back yard, no matter what the time or which part of the world you live in. [Freeware - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000]
www.coeli.com/desknite.htm

Distant Suns - Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
www.distantsuns.dk

Dutch Occultation Association - Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ).
www.doa-site.nl/

The Earth Centered Universe - planetarium and telescope control program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]
www.nova-astro.com/

EasySky - Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.
www.easysky.de/eng/

Free Celestial Maps - rudimentary sky-charting program outputs schematic maps in five projection types, using a small star database or the SAO and PPM. [Freeware DOS/Windows]
www.geocities.com/ovidiuv/maps.html

Hallo Northern Sky - planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC CD-ROMs. [Freeware - Win95/98/NT/XP]
www.hnsky.org/software.htm

Home Planet - A space and astronomy package, with satellite-tracking capabilities. [freeware - Windows]
www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html

HyperSky - an astronomical data display engine allowing full control over what objects are displayed, with "hypertext-like" information about those objects. Beginning to show its age. The demo uses a DOS installer which failed to work on this reviewer's system. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
www.willbell.com/software/hypersky/hypersky.htm

Jovian Satellite Simulator - JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT]
indigo.ie/~gnugent/JupSat95/

Lunar Map Pro - Lunar Map Pro is astronomy software for amateur observers of the Moon. It has over 13000 features with full search data base of all the known craters including NASA Apollo landing sites.[commercial - Win2K/XP]
www.riti.com/prodserv_lunarmappro.htm

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. Commercial, free demo, Windows.
www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhaseCD

MegaStar Sky Atlas - resource for deep-sky observing. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
www.willbell.com/software/megastar/index.htm

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]
www.relativedata.com/mystars/

Navigator Light - Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows]
www.tecepe.com.br/nav

Planet Finder - rudimentary display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet]
www.lightandmatter.com/area2planet.shtml

Planisphere - Displays appropriate sky area on monitor for any date. [Freeware - Windows]
nio.astronomy.cz/om

Project Pluto - Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT]
www.projectpluto.com/

RedShift - Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial, Windows]
www.redshift.de/us/_main/index.htm

The Sky - 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]
www.bisque.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]
www.southernstars.com/skychart

SKYLab Astronomy Software - Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP]
www.skylab.com.au

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]
www.skymap.com/

SkyTools - Observation planning, charting and logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT]
www.skyhound.com/cs.html

Solarark - Planet2010 high accuracy astronomy software using VSOP87 planetary theory for calculating the positions of all of the planets within our solar system. Software is accurate for years between 1900 and 2100 (commercial - win95,98,NT,win2000,XP).
www.solarark.fi/

Starmap - Interactive night sky plotter. [freeware - Windows]
webpages.charter.net/thegl/starmap.html

Starry Night - Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows XP/Vista, Mac OSX]
www.starrynight.com/

Stellaris Software - 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.
www.stellaris-software.com

Stellarium - Shows a realistic sky in 3D, as with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope, including fisheye projection for domes. [Free open source (GPL) - Windows, Mac, Linux]
www.stellarium.org/

XEphem - Interactive astronomy program for Unix/Linux/OSX systems with X Windows and Motif. [free and commercial versions, source - Unix]
www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/