Recommended Astronomy Software

General Public Licence (GPL) Software

Please use the light blue text which will take you to the relevant websites to download your software.

• HNSKY  : - Free planetarium program HNSKY for Windows -
• Astro Tips : - Some helpful astronomical software tools and forum -
• Some helpful astronomical software : - Astronomical Tools to download -
• Stellarium : - is a A nice free sky and planetarium program -
• Mitaka : - is a wonderful 4d Planetary/Star Simulator (You will need 3D glasses, which you can easily make your self using red cellophane (left eye) and green cellophane (right eye) -
  
• Mandelbrot : - Fractal Generator for PC -
  
• Celestia : - 3D planetarium software, not restricted to surface of the Earth! -
  
• Moon Atlas : - Virtual Moon Atlas - Also for older pcs: -
  
• Tachyon : - Nice astronomy software for pocket pcs -
  
• Orionic : - The night sky for pocket pcs -
• Ephemeris 1.0 :  - Moon phase generator for pocket pcs -
  
• Android Phone / Tablets Astro Software : - Free astro software for android phones and tablets ...iPhone users please look for astrosoftware in your iPhone store -
  
• Spacecraft 3D : - Free cool app from Nasa for Android and i-phones which displays 3D space craft models using AR - technology if you have an Android or i- phone (tablet) based gadget it`s well worth checking this out !
  Of course i phone users should please visit the i phone store  -
  
• Smart Phone Astro Software : - Free astro software for smart phones and pocket pcs -
• >Sideralis : -  Java .jar file similar to Stellarium or KStar - but for your mobile phone , a really good program ! It also includes background mythology to the constellations . Amazing content for such a small file ! -
• KStars : - Excellent Earth-based planetarium software for your desktop! Recommended to use with Ubuntu operating system.
• Orbiter : -Space Flight Simulator Orbiter - Also for older PCs - .
• Apollo Saturn and Eagle Moonlanding Simulation  : - Extra Module for Orbiter software -
  
• Mercury - Redstone - Titan Simulator : - Extra Module for Orbiter software -
• Gemini Simulator : - Extra Module for Orbiter software -
• Einstein at home project :  - Einstein at Home - Help Scietists !
• Deepskystacker :  - Deepskystacker to perform your Astro photos -
  
• StarCalc:  - StarCalc to map your star photos - .