Top 15 Starry Night Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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1. Stellarium

Stellarium Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.......

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. 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.......

4. SkySafari

SkySafari SkySafari is a powerful planetarium that fits in your pocket. It puts thousands of stars and planets at your fingertips. It lets you find objects in the sky using your device's built-in compass and accelerometer. It includes hundreds of astronomical images, and contains encyclopedic descriptions of the constellations, stars and......

5. Gravit

Gravit Gravit is a free, visually stunning gravity simulator, where you can spend endless time experimenting with various configurations of simulated universes.......

6. Planetarium

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

7. 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......

8. 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......

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. Star Rover

Star Rover Star Rover is the fantastic planetarium for your smart phone. Just hold up your phone and Star Rover will tell you exactly what you are pointing at.Star Rover determines your location automatically. You'll see the stars, moon, planets, constellations in their proper place from your current location. As you move......

11. 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......

12. 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,......

13. 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......

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. iTunes U

iTunes U The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Whether you’re majoring in molecular biology at a university, taking Spanish in high school, or just......