Top 15 Most Popular Astronomy Softwares | Dec 2024

Here are the top 15 most popular astronomy softwares as derived from our TpSort Score which is a continually popular score, it denotes an estimated popularity of a software.

1. Starmap

Starmap Starmap is an intelligent sky navigation tool, written by a professional of the field.Hold the device in your line of vision and discover the map smoothly scanning the sky as you move.Starmap can be extended at will by downloading new functions. It offers many astronomical courses in the form of......

2. Noctua Stellarium Mobile

Noctua Stellarium Mobile Stellarium Mobile is a fully-featured planetarium for your phone. It shows a realistic night sky map in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.The sensor control will also enable you to identify what you see in the sky in just a few seconds,......

3. Qastrocam

Qastrocam Qastrocam is a capture program to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from a V4L device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.......

4. Zooniverse

Zooniverse The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you're new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in - the same account will get you into......

5. Aciqra

Aciqra Aciqra (uh-SEE-kruh) is a free and open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past. It's software that generates a virtual......

6. Cosmic-Watch

Cosmic-Watch Discover the fascinating relation between time and the cosmos. Enjoy this interactive learning tool and understand the concept of the celestial sphere and the apparent movement of the sky.COSMIC WATCH is the worlds first and most advanced interactive 3D astronomical time device in the digital age!Featuring:Realtime world clock: Know the......

7. Solar Model

Solar Model SourceForge presents the Solar Model project. Solar Model is an open source application. SourceForge provides the world's largest selection of Open Source Software. The Solar Model is real time modeling of solar system. It allows user to navigate in space, to control time counting (speed-up time flow) and estimate movement......

8. StarMap 3D

StarMap 3D StarMap 3D Plus is the portable star atlas for beginners or advanced astronomers. Use StarMap 3D Plus to find the planets, stars, constellations, star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae visible to you based on your location and time. StarMap 3D will even use the compass to automatically align the map!......

9. Star Walk (series)

Star Walk (series) Indispensable for amateurs and professionals, as well as for kids who are eager to learn, Star Walk will guide you through the night sky in style. Star Walk is your personal planetarium that can answer all of your curiosities about the sky! For anyone who is interested in stargazing, amateurs......

10. The Night Sky

The Night Sky The Night Sky app enables you to identify the stars, planets, galaxies, and constellations you can see above.• Breathtaking New Sky View: A completely redesigned new Sky View comes to Night Sky with a vivid new colorful atmosphere, animations, and more detailed stars, satellites, and planets than ever before, prepare......

11. SkEye

SkEye SkEye is an advanced planetarium that also works as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes.The handheld-mode is similar to Google SkyMap. However, when switched to indirect-mode it doubles as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes. The PUSHTO system uses the phone's sensors alone. All you need to do is strap the phone......

12. StarCalc

StarCalc StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC is available). It illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth. The star positions can be viewed and presented as images of hemispherical......

13. Sundroid

Sundroid Sundroid calculates sunrise, sunset, twilights, golden hours, length of day, the path of the sun and moon, moonrise & moonset times and more for any date, anywhere in the world. Handy for astronomy, photography, outdoor activities, planning gardens, holidays, hunting, and more. Four widgets are included so the information is......

14. Distant Suns (series)

Distant Suns (series) Distant Suns astronomy app is an award-winning hand-held planetarium with over 25 years of development, offering you the new way to look at the sky from on the Earth to off. Sporting over 130,000 stars, all 8 (or is it 9?) planets, the sun and moon, constellations, galaxies, nebula and......

15. Gaia Sky

Gaia Sky The Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation software that runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).Main Features- Free......