Star Rover is the fantastic planetarium for your smart phone. Just hold up your phone and Star Rover will tell you exactly what you are pointing at.
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Astrarium Alternatives
Astrarium is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Astrarium for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Android Tablet, Windows and iPad apps. The best Astrarium alternative is Stellarium, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Astrarium are Sky Map, KStars, Noctua Stellarium and Sky Guide.
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Just hold up and point the device to the sky and have fun! You can see any stars, constellations and deep sky objects you are watching in real time.
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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
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
42 Cartes du Ciel (Skychart) alternativesThis 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
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The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
Vortex Planetarium - Discover the sky.
The most comprehesive, fully featured Planetarium on Android.
Used by amateur astronomers and armchair observers alike, Vortex Planetarium offers a window to the skies in stunning detail.
Features
Augmented Reality (with camera support) .
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
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