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.
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Open Source KStars AlternativesStar Maps and other similar apps like KStars
The best open source alternative to KStars is Stellarium. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to KStars and ten of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to KStars are Sky Map, Gaia Sky, Astrarium and Planetario.
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59 Stellarium alternatives
47 Sky Map alternativesSky Map (formerly the Google Sky Map) turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a window on the night sky.
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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
Planetario contains a 3D model of our solar system. It will show the horizon and the planets in their path along the sky. The word planet comes from the Greek planetai, meaning "wanderers". Because of the rotation of the earth, the stars seem to move in perfect...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
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Welcome to the Atlas of Space — an interactive visualization to explore the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.
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.
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
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