Apps tagged with 'astronomy-software'

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  1. Trail Sense icon
     58 likes

    An Android app which uses your phone's sensors to assist with wilderness treks or survival situations. Works as general offline multitool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    Nearby

View nearby beacons and paths on your compass.
    Backtrack

Trace back your steps.
    Weather

Get hyperlocal weather forecasts and alerts.
    36 alternatives
  2. Celestia icon
     136 likes

    Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • PortableApps.com
    • visionOS
    • Online
    • BSD
    • F-Droid
    A view of the Solar System from afar, with the orbits and labels of planets and dwarf planets visible. The constellation Orion can be seen on the right side of the image.
    A closeup of Valles Marineris on Mars, this shot demonstrates Celestia's virtual texture feature that allows for extremely high resolution mapping of planets without a major performance loss.
    A low FOV shot of the Earth from low lunar orbit, with a high resolution virtual texture applied to the Moon.
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    A detailed model of the International Space Station in Celestia.
    32 alternatives
  3. KStars icon
     25 likes

    Accurate cross-platform astronomy simulation and astrophotography tool with Ekos suite, observation planner, "What's up Tonight", adjustable simulation speeds, and more.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  4. Astrarium icon
     2 likes

    Astrarium is a free and open source desktop planetarium software for Windows. It allows to discover night sky as seen from any point on the Earth and any date and time instant. There are many celestial objects can be observed, from eight major planets to faintest stars...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    19 alternatives
  5. Aladin icon
     3 likes

    Aladin is an interactive sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images or full surveys, superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    45 alternatives
  6. This program enables you to draw sky charts, making use of the data in 16 catalogs of stars and nebulae. In addition the position of planets, asteroids and comets are shown.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Moon rise with flattenning by the atmospheric refraction
    SAMP connection between Skychart and Topcat
    M13 with UCAC4 catalog
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    M101 with Virtual Observatory data
    44 alternatives
  7. Mitaka icon
     1 like

    Mitaka is software for visualizing the known Universe with up-to-date observational data and theoretical models. Mitaka users can seamlessly navigate through space, from the Earth to the edges of the known Universe.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Earth's day side
    Earth's night side lit up by city lights
    Saturn and its satellites
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    The shadow of the Moon on the Earth during a solar eclipse
    26 alternatives
  8. PixInsight icon
     1 like

    PixInsight is an advanced image processing platform specialized in astrophotography and other technical imaging fields, constantly pushing the boundaries of astronomical image processing with the most powerful toolset available.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
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    8 alternatives
  9. Collect and curate your astronomical images. Search 10+ professional image archives simultaneously. Create master bias, dark and flat frames. Calibrate, register, stack and adjust your FITS, XISF (PixInsight), SBIG and RAW images, all nondestructively.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Gravity and space simulator that allows you to learn about the gravitational force and explore and learn about space. Change the value of the gravitational constant, increase the mass of Jupiter to see how doing so would affect the solar system and much, much more!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    4 alternatives
  11. Orbital Radar is a real-time satellite tracking platform that visualizes every object currently orbiting Earth — including active satellites, space debris, mega-constellations like Starlink, and upcoming re-entries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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    3 alternatives