Picking up where I left off, the web is literally a treasure trove of astronomically relevant free software! Here's the sample du jour: Cartes du Ciel.
Every heavenly observer needs a star atlas. And the information revolution has brought us the digitized star atlas. A really nice one is Cartes du Ciel at: http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
Rod Mollise -- an "astro-guru" who's answered many a question for me -- notes in his review that "I reviewed the previous major release for this program in these pages about a year ago (v2.61), but for those who’ve not yet heard of CdC, the bottom line is that Cartes is a FREEWARE planetarium/deep sky program of surprising power. It’ll do what most other astronomy programs will do—present an onscreen "planetarium" sky for the date and time of your choosing. But what’s amazing is how it combines this basic planetarium functionality with the features of a real, computerized and star atlas." Source: http://skywatch.brainiac.com/sw0102.pdf
Rod, btw, is the author of many useful astronomically relevant books. You can find out more about Rod on his home page. http://members.aol.com/rmollise/
Must go for today.
Cheers.
Every heavenly observer needs a star atlas. And the information revolution has brought us the digitized star atlas. A really nice one is Cartes du Ciel at: http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
Rod Mollise -- an "astro-guru" who's answered many a question for me -- notes in his review that "I reviewed the previous major release for this program in these pages about a year ago (v2.61), but for those who’ve not yet heard of CdC, the bottom line is that Cartes is a FREEWARE planetarium/deep sky program of surprising power. It’ll do what most other astronomy programs will do—present an onscreen "planetarium" sky for the date and time of your choosing. But what’s amazing is how it combines this basic planetarium functionality with the features of a real, computerized and star atlas." Source: http://skywatch.brainiac.com/sw0102.pdf
Rod, btw, is the author of many useful astronomically relevant books. You can find out more about Rod on his home page. http://members.aol.com/rmollise/
Must go for today.
Cheers.
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