Free Starry Night (series) Alternatives

The best free alternative to Starry Night (series) is Stellarium, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Starry Night (series) and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Starry Night (series) are Sky Map, Gaia Sky, KStars and SkyView.

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Starry Night (series)

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Stellarium
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Free • Open Source
Star Map
Mac
Windows
Linux
PortableApps.com
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 Starry Night (series).
- - Stellarium is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Starry Night (series).
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Stellarium Features
1. PortableStellarium can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Exploration
Cross-Platform
Sky Map
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Free • Open Source
Star Map
Android
38 Sky Map alternatives
Sky Map (formerly the Google Sky Map) turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a window on the night sky.
- - Sky Map is the most popular Android alternative to Starry Night (series).
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Sky Map Features
1. Augmented RealitySky Map makes use of augmented reality to interact with one or more of its services.
Gaia Sky
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Free • Open Source
Star Map
Mac
Windows
Linux
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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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
KDE
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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SkyView
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Freemium • Proprietary
Star Map
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
Apple Watch
Kindle Fire
33 SkyView alternatives
SkyView is powerful, easy-to-use app that answers questions about stars, constellations, and more. Simply point the camera to the sky, tap on what you see and discover neat things about these sky objects.
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1. Augmented RealitySkyView makes use of augmented reality to interact with one or more of its services.
SkyMap
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Freemium • Proprietary
Star Map
Windows
Online
Windows Phone
33 SkyMap alternatives
SkyMap provides interactive sky maps for any time, viewpoint and location on Earth. It shows the different names, coordinates, magnitude, astronomical rise and set times plus additional information for over 110000 stars, messier objects, planets, sun and moon.
- - SkyMap is the most popular Web-based alternative to Starry Night (series).
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Cartes du Ciel (Skychart)
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
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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Mitaka
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
22 Mitaka alternatives
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.
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Solar System Scope
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Freemium • Proprietary
Star Map
Mac
Windows
Online
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
48 Solar System Scope alternatives
3D simulation of the Solar System and night sky - real time virtual orrery and observatory
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Solar System Scope Features
1. Works OfflineSolar System Scope can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
Multiple languages
SkEye
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Freemium • Proprietary
Star Map
Android
Android Tablet
35 SkEye alternatives
SkEye is an advanced Planetarium that can also be used as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes.
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1. Dark ModeSkEye supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
Aciqra
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Free • Open Source
Star Map
Windows
Linux
Wine
36 Aciqra alternatives
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.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 2.3.2, released in July 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Planetarium
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Free • Proprietary
Star Map
Online
48 Planetarium alternatives
A browser-based virtual planetarium of stars and planets customizable by location (latitude and longitude) and time of day.
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Based on Flash Player
Browser-based