Good Astronomy software...

chezzer

Hi
anyone know of a good (preferably) free program, shows star maps , planet orbits etc .. just a nice package for someone with an interest
in armchair astronomy.

Thx

Chez

Bohrio

chezzer wrote: »

Hi
anyone know of a good (preferably) free program, shows star maps , planet orbits etc .. just a nice package for someone with an interest
in armchair astronomy.

Thx

Chez

Depends on your OS but I'd say Stellarium is one of the best, go to http://www.stellarium.org/

And is free

hobochris

http://www.google.com/sky/

chezzer

Bohrio wrote: »

Depends on your OS but I'd say Stellarium is one of the best, go to http://www.stellarium.org/

And is free

Excellent thanks a lot !!

Looks good, I will download and install later in Vista ...

dbran

I use Cartes du Ciel

http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/

Stargate

Bohrio wrote: »

Depends on your OS but I'd say Stellarium is one of the best, go to http://www.stellarium.org/

And is free

Second that re Stellarium Bohrio , a great proggy

Hadouken!!

Agree, Stellarium is great!

Stargate

Hadouken!! wrote: »

Agree, Stellarium is great!

Howya doing Hadouken!!

Long time no see , Lovely stargazing weather

lostexpectation

Cartes du Ciel

is year olds!

stellarium is great but i wish it give me more info when i click on stars, like to go a webpage when i click on 'well known' stars

Hadouken!!

Stargate wrote: »

Howya doing Hadouken!!

Long time no see , Lovely stargazing weather

Hey Stargate.

I've been up to my eyeballs with other things so scope has been hibernating for the past few months. Have had a few awesome nights recently my way so was tempted to bring her out but as soon as the thought crossed my mind, nothing but cloud cover since

Look on the bright side, the long cold winter nights are on their way soon

lostexpectation wrote: »

Cartes du Ciel

is year olds!

stellarium is great but i wish it give me more info when i click on stars, like to go a webpage when i click on 'well known' stars

I've never used CdC myself but I know a guy who swears by it! Say's it's far better than Stellarium... so i'll +1 Cartes on his behalf

Bosch

Chez, check out WorldWide Telescope.

Kevster

I was going to say Stellarium too - it really is the best that I've come across. You could also tae a loo at this: http://www.n2yo.com/ This is a live-and-interactive satellite/telescope tracking tool. At first, it just shows the position of the ISS with respect to EArth, but you can choose any satellite/telescope you want (and shuttles, when they're up here).

Plug

This stellarium thing is class! I don't know much about astronomy but hope to get into this as a hobby. Are any other planets visible except for Jupiter at the moment?

Plug

Plug wrote: »

This stellarium thing is class! I don't know much about astronomy but hope to get into this as a hobby. Are any other planets visible except for Jupiter at the moment?

Mars rises at around 00:40, so you'd begin to see that towards 1:30/2:30 ish low on the horizon.

Also, Uranus and Neptune are up from ~20:00 onwards, but you'll need binoculars to see Uranus, and you'd really need a telescope to see Neptune.

They're the only ones that aren't up at ungodly hours at the moment.

Capt'n Midnight

for those on linux in addition to stellerium you have
kstars
celestia

some live distros have them so you can just boot off the cd and use them

lostexpectation

this is cool plugin for stellarium
to see the stars more directly

http://archive.eso.org/cms/tools-documentation/visual-archive-browser

Plug

-JammyDodger- wrote: »

Mars rises at around 00:40, so you'd begin to see that towards 1:30/2:30 ish low on the horizon.

Also, Uranus and Neptune are up from ~20:00 onwards, but you'll need binoculars to see Uranus, and you'd really need a telescope to see Neptune.

They're the only ones that aren't up at ungodly hours at the moment.

Tell me this, in the next few months I hope to get a telescope for about €250 max or a good second hand one, would I be able to see jupiter and the planets in detail and I don't mean like a big star. Could I actually see the storm thing in jupiter and all the colours etc?

Plug

Plug wrote: »

Tell me this, in the next few months I hope to get a telescope for about €250 max or a good second hand one, would I be able to see jupiter and the planets in detail and I don't mean like a big star. Could I actually see the storm thing in jupiter and all the colours etc?

Bump:o

riptide

Plug wrote: »

Bump:o

250? You might see *some* detail. But it won't be exactly A4 size if you know what I mean.

Plug

Could you recommend me a telescope?