stellarium

While I'm on the topic of astronomy, I wanted to point out a great open source planetarium application called Stellarium. It's available for Mac, Windows, and Linux so give it a try.

Posted by asa on March 19, 2006 9:09 PM

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Wahoo very nice one !
This soft is useful to help observation in real conditions !
Nothing to do with Celestia, that is more for discovery, dream and creativity...

Posted by: Talou | March 20, 2006 1:16 AM

Here is a good (for the internet) flash-based Planetarium.

Posted by: Silent Scream | March 20, 2006 4:36 AM

yeah the neave is better than oringals kinda.. i see stellarium looks goods..

look to the stars, asa.

Posted by: adan | March 21, 2006 9:54 AM

Have you seen Celestia? It's a "free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions," and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux too. Dave Shea of Mezzoblue greatly enjoyed it.

Posted by: Rahul | March 21, 2006 11:03 AM

Yes, this is an awesome program. I was linked to this by a fellow Open University student and haven't looked back since. It's great to skip ahead in time and see when it will be worth going outside for some star gazing!

Posted by: James | March 21, 2006 12:28 PM