Sky Map Alternatives for Linux

Sky Map is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Stellarium, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Sky Map and six of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Sky Map are Gaia Sky, KStars, Cartes du Ciel (Skychart) and Aciqra.

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Sky Map (formerly the Google Sky Map) turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a window on the night sky.

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Stellarium
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54 Stellarium alternatives
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
- - Stellarium is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Sky Map.
- - Stellarium is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Sky Map.
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1. PortableStellarium can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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Gaia Sky
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42 Gaia Sky alternatives
Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation software that runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH...
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KStars
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42 KStars alternatives
KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets...
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I can learn what stars I’m looking at Antolak clear
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Cartes du Ciel (Skychart)
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37 Cartes du Ciel (Skychart) alternatives
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.
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$Moon rise with flattenning by the atmospheric refraction$
Aciqra
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Aciqra (uh-SEE-kruh) is a free and open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past.
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1. PortableAciqra can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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The project is no longer developed. Last version, 2.3.2, released in July 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Aladin
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38 Aladin alternatives
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...
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