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• - Observation planning, charting & logging software. [commercial - Win95/98/NT]
  
• - resource for deep-sky observing. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95]
  
• - A sophisticated java applet showing 9000+ stars, planets, and messier objects.
  
• - Celestial navigation software with star finder, vetor chart and GPS interface. [commercial, demo available. Windows]
  
• - Stellaris is an astronomy shareware program. It includes simulations of the night sky (including NGC objects) and solar system. It also plots user-definable graphs, displays space images and comes with various utilites such as an astronomical calculator.
  
• - Interactive night sky plotter. [freeware - Windows]
  
• - Displays appropriate sky area on monitor for any date. [Freeware - Windows]
  
• - displays stars, constellations, planets, galaxies, and star clusters, with animations and a screen saver. [Shareware - DOS/Win 3.x]
  
• - turns your Windows Desktop into the night sky as viewed from your own back yard, no matter what the time or which part of the world you live in. [Freeware - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000]
  
• - Shows the daylight face of the Earth, the position of the Sun, the position of the Moon and its phase. [freeware - Windows 9x/NT/2k/XP]
  
• - basic planetarium designed to show the sky as seen from any place on Earth at any date. Accuracy has been sacrificed for the sake of "photorealism". Uses the HR catalog of 9000 stars. This reviewer encountered hardware incompatibility problems,
  
• - Lunar Map Pro is astronomy software for amateur observers of the Moon. It has over 13000 features with full search data base of all the known craters including NASA Apollo landing sites.[commercial]
  
• - planetarium program generating accurate charts, with stars, planets, comets, and asteroids. Orrery views make it a useful teaching tool. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]
  
• - Complete line of PC astronomy software, including Stella 2000 - talking astronomy suite with encyclopedic reference, logbook, orrery, and planetarium with telescope control. Free astronomy software gifts on offer here. [shareware,freeware,commercial - Win
  
• - an astronomical data display engine allowing full control over what objects are displayed, with "hypertext-like" information about those objects. Beginning to show its age. The demo uses a DOS installer which failed to work on this reviewer's sy
  
• - planetarium program which includes the Tycho-2 and SAC 7.2 catalogues. Can access the GSC CD-ROMs. [Freeware - Win95]
  
• - Photographic-based star atlas and planetarium. [commercial - Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP]
  
• - rudimentary sky-charting program outputs schematic maps in five projection types, using a small star database or the SAO and PPM. [Freeware DOS/Win95]
  
• - displays the stars, constellations, deep sky objects, Sun, Moon, and planets as visible from any location on Earth at any given time, with optional animation. [shareware - Win95/98/NT]
  
• - Free version of Lunar Occultation Workbench ( LOW ).
  
• - planetarium and telescope control program. [shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]
  
• - rudimentary display of the planets for any given date. [Java applet]
  
• - Desktop planetarium and charting program. [commercial - Dos, Win3.1/95/NT]
  
• - Planetarium program which lets you view the sky from anywhere in the universe. [Commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
  
• - a CD-ROM planetarium and star-charting program equally suited to both the casual stargazer and the serious amateur or professional astronomer, although its feature list will appeal especially to the more advanced user. [Commercial, demo available - Win95/
  
• - observer-oriented star mapping and telescope control software. [commercial, demo available - DOS]
  
• - basic planetarium, with 3 view styles. Includes stars, planets, comets, asteroids and objects from the NGC catalog. [Shareware - Win9x]
  
• - The AstroViewer planetarium applet shows a sky map for any time and any location on Earth. Individual printable sky maps (GIF, PDF) may be created.
  
• - planetarium program displaying the sky from anywhere on Earth, in the solar system, or in the Milky Way, and for any point in time in the future or past. It supports numerous telescope computer controllers. [commercial, demo available - Win3.1/95/NT, Mac]
  
• - Deep Sky Star Charting and Telescope Control System. [commercial - Win9x/NT/2000/XP]
  
• - Multimedia desktop planetarium on CD-ROM. [Commercial]
  
• - Lunar observer's toolkit with real time moon simulation including libration. Identify lunar features; zoom, pan and print moon maps; monthly lunar ephemeris; many charts, diagrams and printouts.
  
• - JupSat95 calculates and displays the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons. [Shareware Win9x/NT]
  
• - a multi-feature digital orrery. [Shareware - Windows 95/98/ME]
  
• - from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Online forms provide sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and twilight times for one day or one year; moon phases, eclipse charts, and data for major solar system bodies and bright stars.
  
• - planetarium program showing you the sky on any date, from any place on earth. Has features to benefit a wide range of interest levels, from the beginning hobbyist to the seasoned professional. [commercial, Win98/NT, MacOS]
  
• - Interactive astronomy program for Unix systems with X Windows and Motif. [open source - Unix]
  
• - Virtual planetarium and merchandise information. [commercial - Windows/Macintosh]
  
• - Planetarium with orrery, and animation. Commercial, demo available - Win95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.