Freeware Listing: Planetarium
- Asynx Planetarium
- License: Freeware

Asynx Planetarium is a easy to use planetarium program and solar system simulator. It can display the night sky from any location on earth between the year 1760 and 9999 and covers over 10000 stars, the planets, all messier objects, all 88 constellations and the moon with phase. Fast animations: Night sky, geocentric and heliocentric view. Parents and teachters can show the kids how the planets "dance" around the sun and how it looks different from different locations like the North Pole, New York and close to the Aequator. Just with playing around you can learn more than study the subject for hours.
- Publisher: Asynx Software Inc
- Date: 17-05-2014
- Size: 3193 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows 8, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Planetarium
- License: Freeware

See the brightest 2500 stars, all 88 constellations, all nine planets and the moonphase from 4713BC to 9999 AD from any location on earth. Click star on screen for detailed information. Geocentric and heliocentric views also available. Define your own five locations for quick switch. Tiny program, but great planetarium, especially for teachers and students. Print todays night sky ! Nice visuals, smooth animation, simple controls, good planet data. This is the Windows version of the classic Planetarium software of 1992. The DOS version didn't work with todays fast computer anymore. But it was downloaded for 13 years, and one of the first of its kind, especially the animantions and colors.
- Publisher: Asynx Software Inc.
- Date: 09-12-2005
- Size: 614 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- StarStrider screen saver
- License: Freeware

Turn the StarStrider 3D planetarium into a screen saver!The StarStrider screen saver allows you to use FMJ-Software's StarStrider planetarium software as the pinnacle of 'space travel screen savers'.View the planets and moons of our solar system!View hundreds of thousands of stars!View spectacular galaxies, clusters & nebulae!All in photo-realistic 3D - there's really nothing else quite like it!Requires FMJ-Software's StarStrider v2.x (Shareware available from Simtel.Net as stars25.zip) + DirectX 8 or later.. StarStrider - The 3D-planetarium from FMJ-Software. StarStrider: The three-dimensional real time planetarium and virtual star ship astronomy software.
- Publisher: FMJ-Software
- Date: 23-6-2009
- Size: 225 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinOther
- Hallo northern sky 2.3.0N
- License: Freeware

&Hallo northern sky& or HNSKY is a planetarium program for windows. Have a try. It is free with 26000 deepsky objects and all stars to magnitude 12 and with the original GSC CD's, GSC-ACT or the USNO UCAC2 to magnitude 16. It displays all planets, the Moon, Sun, moons of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Neptune and a few hundred asteroids and comets. It comes with 255 small DSS deepsky images which will blend in at the right size and orientation. It will run under Windows 95 or later. To install the program you start with the basic package or just put all the files in one directory and just run the main file HNSKY.
- Publisher: Han Kleijn
- Date: 26-10-2012
- Size: 4096 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- BoPlanets planetarium
- License: Freeware

BoPlanets is a virtual planetarium showing the planets relatively to any observing planet. The planets can be viewed in ecliptical-, equatorial- or horizontal view. The times of rise, transit and set of a planet can be determined..
- Publisher: bo-planets.sourceforge.net
- Date: 24-05-2012
- Size: 163 KB
- Platform: Linux, Mac OS X, WinOther
- Ciclope Planetarium
- License: Freeware

Ciclope Planetarium is a web-based planetarium that provides a simulation of the sky from any location at any time and date. Developed using Google Maps API & AJAX. Available in PHP & J2EE. Integrated in the Ciclope Stars project (www.ciclope.info/stars)
Ciclope Planetarium License - GNU General Public License (GPL).
- Publisher: Cplanetarium
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- Portable Stellarium
- License: Freeware

Stellarium Portable 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. You can view the planets and gaze at the stars in stunning detail. Stellarium includes vivid illustrations of the constellations and a theatrical display of ravishing nebulae and galaxies. With Stellarium Portable, you can transform any computer into a stargazing centerpiece.
FEATURES:
TE Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos for the brightest ones.
TE Planets and major satellites in real time (position computation now accurate enough for eclipse or transit simulation).
- Publisher: John T. Haller
- Date:
- Size: 43008 KB
- Platform: Win7 x64, Windows 7, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Stellarium for Windows (x64 bit)
- License: Freeware

Stellarium for Windows (x64 bit) 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.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Features in version 0.11.4.:
sky
* default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
* extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
* asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
* constellations for twelve different cultures
* images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
* realistic Milky Way
* very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
* the planets and their satellites
interface
* a powerful zoom
* time control
* multilingual interface
- The Electric Astrolabe
- License: Shareware

The Electric Astrolabe is a fully animated planetarium software in the form of a planispheric astrolabe. The singular advantage of the astrolabe display is that it shows most of the sky, both visible and invisible, on a single screen.
Unlike a static instrument, The Electric Astrolabe can be set for any location, date and time and includes accurate positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets. In addition, The Electric Astrolabe includes over 150 stars which can be displayed as constellation asterisms and all of the Messier objects.
Either a north or south projection can be shown.
- Publisher: James E. Morrison
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- SkyMap for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

SkyMap for Windows 8 was designed as a virtual planetarium that brings stars, constellations and planets closer to you.
With SkyMap for Windows 8, you will benefit from a 3D view of the sky and you will be able to explore deep space objects in real time.
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- Publisher: Deneb Soft
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Stellarium Portable
- License: Shareware

Stellarium Portable 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. You can view the planets and gaze at the stars in stunning detail. Stellarium includes vivid illustrations of the constellations and a theatrical display of ravishing nebulae and galaxies. With Stellarium Portable, you can transform any computer into a stargazing centerpiece.
- Publisher: Portableapps
- Date:
- Size: 37324 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
- Portable Celestia
- License: Shareware

Celestia Portable is the popular planetarium program packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can view the universe in 3-D anywhere. It has all the same great features as Celestia including 3-D planet viewing, viewing over 100,000 stars, traveling beyond our galaxy, and more. Plus, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite astronomy program with you wherever you go.
Features
Stellarium Portable ScreenshotUnlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth.
- Publisher: John T. Haller
- Date:
- Size: 33812 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Hallo northern sky
- License: Freeware

A planetarium program designed for Windows showing many deepsky objects "Hallo northern sky" or HNSKY is a planetarium program designed for Windows. Hallo northern sky is free with 26000 deepsky objects and all stars to magnitude 12 and with the original GSC CD's, GSC-ACT or the USNO UCAC2 to magnitude 16. Hallo northern sky displays all planets, the Moon, Sun, moons of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Neptune and a few hundred asteroids and comets. Hallo northern sky comes with 255 small DSS deepsky images which will blend in at the right size and orientation.. Han Kleijn's index. Han Kleijn astronomy experiences with ETX, LX10 and LX200, CCD camera.
- Publisher: hnsky.org
- Date: 25-08-2009
- Size: 4055 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- SkyORB
- License: Freeware

SkyORB is more than a simple star map, it's a collection of 6 tools including a 3D star map, 3D planetarium, ephemeris, search engine, sun clock and more..
- Publisher: realtech VR
- Date: 25-06-2012
- Size: 32133 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- C2A
- License: Freeware

C2A now supports the binary PPMXL catalogue compiled to answer the needs of the occulation hunters. C2A (Computer Aided Astronomy) is a Planetarium software that allows you to build detailed views of stellar fields. An important objective of this software is to take into account the main catalogues available to professional and amateur astronomers in order to prepare observations on small fields as well as astrometry and photometry works. C2A is also an easy to use general purpose Planetarium software with many functions. C2A is able to display the following catalogues: SAO, GCVS, WDS and Hipparcos (all four provided with the standard program distribution), Guide Star, Tycho-2 (both can be downloaded from this site in the Downloads page), USNO-SA1.
- Publisher: Philippe DeverchA?re
- Date: 15-10-2012
- Size: 38093 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Open 2Sky for PalmOS
- License: Freeware

2Sky is a complete user-friendly commercial astronomy planetarium application for the PalmOS platform realeased by Kevin S. Polk as open source. Features include: stars, deep sky objects, planets, comets, asteroids, moons of Jupiter, meteor radiants..
- Publisher: open2sky.sourceforge.net
- Date: 17-09-2012
- Size: 10673 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Planetarium Engine
- License: Freeware

A 3d space sim engine, capable of rendering stereoscopically (side by side or color separated). Mouse input, keyboard input, and lots of effects. Currently rendering ~16000 stars at 40 fps (600x800). All CPU, using MIT-SHM for speed. Looking for developer
Planetarium Engine License - GNU General Public License (GPL).
- Publisher: Planetarium
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- Digital Almanac
- License: Freeware

Planetarium software for Amiga.
Digital Almanac License - Public Domain.
- Publisher: Digital-almanac
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- OpenCoeli
- License: Freeware

Astronomy planetarium for advanced observers
OpenCoeli License - GNU General Public License (GPL).
- Publisher: Opencoeli
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
- ScenicSkies
- License: Freeware

ScenicSkies is a open source planetarium software under development which in time is going to have photorealistic rendering of the skies both during the day and night.
ScenicSkies License - zlib/libpng License.
- Publisher: Scenicskies
- Date:
- Platform: WinOther
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