This tool lets you build your own spacecraft, and travel to places in space with it. For the selected object, you can view its universe map. You can save a location to visit later. While viewing an object, you can change lighting angle to get a clear view.
Use the mouse to zoom, move object, and use keyword shortcuts to perform various actions. Get the user manual to find out more about the software and its tools. Space Engine also requires dedicated graphics card to run smoothly. The minimum graphics card requirement is 1 GB. Visit homepage to view other minimum specifications required to run this planetarium software. Asynx Planetarium is a very simple planetarium software. It lets you take a view at the sky and displays all the visible stars and planets according to your location and current time.
You can also change location and time manually to view the sky. You can locate a star or a planet, then click on it to view its details, such as: name, type, constellation, spectrum, mag, altitude, azimuth, etc.
There are various viewing modes to take a look at the sky: Horizontal view, Geocentric view, and Heliocentric view. You can even run animation of sky movement in different speeds. Capture the sky as image, change star density, search for a constellation, and do much more. It is a simple planetarium software with very basic features, and can be used for elementary astrology studies.
C2A is another free software to view stars, planets, and deep space objects. It has a simple and intuitive interface with tonnes of tools and options to let you study astronomy. Along with planets, galaxies, stars, constellations, it also includes asteroid and comet data.
While exploring the sky, a double click on any object displays various information about it. Navigation is pretty easy, and the availability of Find tool makes it even easier to locate an object in the sky. Just like most of the planetarium software, you can view the sky map from any location on earth for any given time: past, present, or future. A telescope hand controller tool is available, which lets you manually zoom in and focus on to an object you want to view.
The display options let you customize the sky the way you want to view it. Aciqra is a very simple planetarium software to let you explore the space. The interface is very minimalist and has few but ample tools to let you view objects in the space, such as planets, stars, nebulae, and deep space objects.
You can separately highlight and view stars, constellations, solar system, etc. A Search tool is also available, which will help you look for objects in space. Click on an object to view a brief info about it. It also has a night mode. OpenUniverse is a very interesting planetarium tool.
It lets you view objects in our Solar System by setting a Source and Target. This means, you can get a view from one object of our Solar System to another object. There are various camera modes available, which let you view the target objects from different perspectives.
It has various hotkeys to ease the task of navigation. Go visit the User Manual Page to know about them. CNebulaX is a very good planetarium software and also lets you create sky maps. It displays the visible sky map in various angular grids, such as: degree grid, 40 degree grid, 10 degree grid, and 1 degree grid.
Click on an object to view related information. If you want to jump to an object simply by finding it, using the Search tool.
You can also enter coordinates to find objects. You can view star positions according to different locations and time in past or future. Monthly, daily, or yearly plots can be drafted for selected objects here. One of the tools lets you check visibility for selected object to be viewed from naked eyes.
There are various other tools that can help you out for carrying calculations and get data for astronomy studies. Gaia Sky is a planetarium software related to Gaia Space Observatory. It displays all the imagery recorded by Gaia and also lets you closely inspect Gaia along with planets, stars, galaxies, constellations, deep space objects, and much more.
Simply select an object, or type the object you want to visit. Gaia takes you there and lets you observe it in a 3 dimensional view. You can view and track the path of objects as well. One of the best features of this planetarium software is support for Visual reality headsets, Gamepad controllers to navigate through space, and Spacecraft mode get into a spacecraft to explore the space.
It can be controlled from its interface; however, there are certain shortcut keys which you can use for easy navigation and functioning. You can view these shortcuts when this planetarium tool starts. We love the three colour options day, dusk, night that help the observer protect their night adapted vision.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Design By: shinydgn. Sky Safari With its lovely background music, bright colours and constellation drawings this is a wonderful app for kids.
SkEye Android SkEye is another planetarium app that is well known and quite popular among stargazers and amateur telescope users. Additional information When planning a stargazing session, check Astronomy weather forecast, the time when the Sun, the Moon and the planets rise and set and the phase of the Moon.
Many stargazing and Astronomy apps provide this information. Instead of exploring the real night sky with a virtual astronomer app , why not try it the other way around? Visit our inflatable planetarium for a tour of the virtual heavens guided by a real astronomer! For more information check our mobile star dome website. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. A shooting star flashes past the Jupiter.
You can select different intensities in the View window. Hoffmann Collaborator: Alexander Duytschaever and everyone else in the community. If the Stellarium planetarium was helpful for your research work, the following acknowledgment would be appreciated:. Zotti, G. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 6 2 , — Or you may download the BibTeX file of the paper to create another citation format.
The latest development snapshot of Stellarium is kept on github.
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