Astronomy freeware

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Almost all are Demo - including ALL the free ones!
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The only ones I'd give houseroom to, Cartes de Ciel, very good, accurate,
does artificial satellites and iridium flares,

and Stellarium, not as comprehensive but a beautiful prog but basic
planetatium,

are both genuine freeware, and I'm very glad of it :o)

mike
 
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The only ones I'd give houseroom to, Cartes de Ciel, very good, accurate,
does artificial satellites and iridium flares,

and Stellarium, not as comprehensive but a beautiful prog but basic
planetatium,

are both genuine freeware, and I'm very glad of it :o)

mike
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Starcalc is free, so is Spica, so is celestia (open universe), mooncalc
(maybe?), the "lite" edition of home planet, electric astrolabe,
astroviewer, and alpha centaure
 
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Starcalc is free, so is Spica, so is celestia (open universe), mooncalc
(maybe?), the "lite" edition of home planet, electric astrolabe,
astroviewer, and alpha centaure
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Celestia is great for flying around the universe--one of my favorites!

Does anyone know of a freeware solar system simulator like Dance of the
Planets that let you mess around with various parameters and see what
happens? Always wanted one but DotP is way too expensive for something I
just want to play with...

-- Bob
 
Celestia is great for flying around the universe--one of my favorites!
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I thought of trying Celestia, but it's a helluva download
Does anyone know of a freeware solar system simulator like Dance of
the Planets t
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I had DoTP ages ago, on Dos, but I couldn't make head or tail of it....

(too thick for linux) mike
 
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Starcalc is free, so is Spica, so is celestia (open universe), mooncalc
(maybe?), the "lite" edition of home planet, electric astrolabe,
astroviewer, and alpha centaure
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Celestia is great for flying around the universe--one of my favorites!

Does anyone know of a freeware solar system simulator like Dance of the
Planets that let you mess around with various parameters and see what
happens? Always wanted one but DotP is way too expensive for something I
just want to play with...

-- Bob
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This might do it. Kind of dated though.

Free Virtual Galaxy Project (FVG)
http://www.ccm.net/~jrsmith/index.html

<quote>
The purpose of the Free Virtual Galaxy Project (FVG) is to provide a zero
cost, interactive 3D virtual reality system which allows users to "fly" to
and around nearby stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Objects represented in
the system are plotted in the positions they occupy in 3-space according
to the best information available. I don't claim now (and never will) that
the program or the data behind it is without flaw, but I do plan to make
program improvements as time permits and will post the current version
number so that return visitors may download the latest and greatest if
they so desire.
</quote>
<quote>Installation page.
PC Preparation

The program requires at least a 486 DX and runs under protected mode DOS.
Windows 3.1 users should escape to DOS - Windows 95/NT users can open a
DOS window to run it. The program requires approximately 4 meg of ram at
runtime and the installation requires about 4 meg of disk space.
</quote>
 
Celestia is probably the best, though, esp. for a newer machine. very
detailed. but dszady, know where i can find simple star charts (for
DOS or Win3x) ?
 
As there seem to be a few folks here that know something about available
astronomy products allow me to ask a question.

Many years ago in a previous life I ran OS/2 and used a program called
COSMOS. This was never made available for Windows as far as I know. The
thing that I would like to see again is the half hemisphere view.

While all the Windows programs I have tried allow a hemisphere view of
the heavens looking up from your location, I am looking for the view
COSMOS had. Whatever direction you were "looking" then left was left,
right was right, and overhead was at the top of the half-circle view.
This seemed the easiest way to explain the heavens to my kids and now my
grandkids.

Does anyone understand what I am trying to say? If so, is there anything
like this available for Windows?

-Jim
 
Celestia is probably the best, though, esp. for a newer machine. very
detailed. but dszady, know where i can find simple star charts (for
DOS or Win3x) ?
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IMO the best of them is Skyglobe; I used it for years on Dos, and is a
cracking little prog.

(It was my first experience of shareware, I sent a crisp tenner to the
states to cover a $10.00 +etc registration, and I got a manual and a floppy
back with me name on it.... I was ecstatic)

Efforts have been made to trace the author Mark Haney, but AFAIK without
success, so I guess it's abandonware

http://astro4.ast.vill.edu/skyglobe.htm



mike
 
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