Top 15 KStars Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.

1. 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!......

2. 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......

3. Sky Map of Constellations

Sky Map of Constellations A very simple overview of the northern and southern sky hemisphere map with the Constellation and approximate graphical position of the planets and of The Sun and of The Moon without ZOOMING.The Moon Info (the menu item) shows the date of phases of The Moon and the action of gravity......

4. Vortex Planetarium

Vortex Planetarium Vortex Planetarium - Discover the sky.The most comprehesive, fully featured Planetarium on Android.Used by amateur astronomers and armchair observers alike, Vortex Planetarium offers a window to the skies in stunning detail.Features:Sky mode turns your device into a digital telescope, just hold it to the skies to activate. *View the skies......

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. Star Chart

Star Chart Can’t see the moon? Want to know where it is? Look through the eyes of your device to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.Using state of the art GPS technology, an accurate 3D Universe, and most of your smart phone's high tech functionality, Star Chart calculates –......

7. 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......

8. 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......

9. GoSkyWatch Planetarium

GoSkyWatch Planetarium Displays the sky view at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait. Simple operation, no buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring. Unique rotation scheme enables touchless navigation even for the iPod touch and earlier iPhones......

10. SkyORB

SkyORB SkyORB is more than a simple star map, it's a collection of 7 tools including a 3D star map, 3D planetarium, ephemeris, search engine, sun clock, point to sky, weather, and more.Key features:• Allows you to fine tune your observation location from the database of by entering longitude and latitude......

11. Planisphere

Planisphere Planisphere is an astronomy application that lets you use pinch and finger gestures to manipulate a map of the sky. As you zoom in finer detail comes into view. You can double tap on objects to get......

12. Planetarium

Planetarium A browser-based virtual planetarium of stars and planets customizable by location (latitude and longitude) and time of day.......

13. ChronosXP

ChronosXP ChronosXP is a free planetary hours program for Windows. It runs from the system tray where it displays a glyph corresponding to the current planetary hour. If you double-click on the glyph, a calendar window opens up where you can see planetary hour times for any given day or location.......

14. Luminos

Luminos Luminos is an all-in-one astronomy app that goes beyond simple stargazing. It combines millions of celestial objects into a beautifully-rendered space simulation that will amaze you. Our enthusiastic customers range from hobbyists to professional astronomers, and everyone in between. And now, Luminos features the largest catalog available on mobile, with......

15. Celestia

Celestia Celestia is a free real-time 3D space simulation, allowing unrestricted access to hundreds of thousands of stars.3rd-Party content is also available to expand the virtual universe.......