KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites. For students and teachers, it supports adjustable simulation speeds in order to view phenomena that happen over long timescales, the KStars Astrocalculator
A planetarium software that renders a 3D simulation of the night sky. * default catalogue of over 600,000 stars * extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars * default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects * extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects * asterisms and illustrations of the constellations * constellations for 20+ different cultures * images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue) * realistic Milky Way * very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset * the plane
XEphem is an interactive astronomy program for all UNIX platforms, written and maintained by Elwood Downey over more than thirty years 1990–2021 and now generously released under the MIT License.
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