Redshift 7 Premium is a comprehensive guide to the heavens. A huge panorama of the Milky Way, photo-realistic horizons and a 3-D flight out of our galaxy are only a few ways in which Redshift turns astronomy into a breathtaking and inspiring experience. Countless unique features such as telescope and joystick control, over 100 multimedia tours, macro recorder to create your own tours, online access to the Digitized Sky Survey and Google Maps, high quality videos, animations and the extensive help make Redshift 7 Premium the indispensable guide to the night skies.
Features:
•Realistic 3-D model of our galaxy with 3-D flights
•More than 2.5 million stars, planets and Deep Sky objects
•Includes exoplanets an dwarf planets
•New Horizon Panoramas für Earth, Moon and Mars
•Direct access to star catalogs SIMBAD and SOHO
•Download of new discoveries and orbital data of satellites, comets and asteroids from the latest object databases on the Internet into the main Redshift database. Updates are provided at least twice a month.
•Comprehensive observation planner for your in-the-field observation
•Direct link to www.redshift-live.com for the exchange of guided tours and workspaces
| Product | Kind | Price | Demo | Author/Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartes du Ciel | free | yes | Bruce Skelly | |
| Celestia | free | yes | Chris Laurel | |
| Digital Universe | commercial | $100 | Syzygy Research & Technology | |
| Hipparchus | commercial | $50 | yes | sofTouch APpLications |
| MacAstronomica | shareware | $25 | yes | Easysoft Creations |
| MacStronomy | commercial | $60 | yes | Etlon Software |
| MPj Equinox | shareware | $29 | yes | MicroProjects |
| Night Vision | free | yes | Brian Simpson | |
| SkyORB | free | yes | realtech VR | |
| Sky Sentinel Planetarium | commercial | $50 | yes | Procyon |
| Stargazer’s Delight | shareware | $29 | yes | Ruedi Schmid |
| Starry Night | commercial | $34 – 149 | yes | Sienna Software |
| Stellarium | free | yes | Fabien Chereau | |
| TheSkyX | commercial | $99 | no | Software Bisque |
| Voyager | commercial | $150-200 | no | Carina Software |
| Where is M13? | free | yes | Think Astronomy | |
| Xephem | free | source | Elwood Charles Downey |
| Product | Kind | Price | Demo | Author/Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celestia | free | yes | Chris Laurel | |
| Cartes du Ciel | free | yes | Patrick Chevalley | |
| OpenUniverse | free | yes | Raœl Alonso | |
| KStars | free | yes | Jason Harris | |
| Night Vision | free | yes | Brian Simpson | |
| Skymap | free | yes | Doug Mink | |
| Stellarium | free | yes | Fabien Chereau | |
| Where is M13? | free | yes | Think Astronomy | |
| Xephem | free | source | Elwood Charles Downey | |
| Xplns | free | yes | Osamu Ajiki | |
| Xsky | free | yes | Terry R. Friedrichsen |
| Product | Kind | Price | Demo | Author/Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Night Vision | Night Vision | free | yes | Brian Simpson | |
| SkyGate | commercial | $59 | yes | AstroGrafx | |
| The COSMOS | commercial | $49 | no | MENSYS |
Note: prices are in US dollars exclusive of shipping/handling charges and rounded to the nearest dollar (and probably out of date).
Java
- Night Vision for Java
- Java star chart program by Akkana Peck
- Planet Finder, a Java applet
- The Planets Explorer, our solar system in Java3D
- Copernicus Planetarium
Sky Survey
The ultimate planetarium is the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, a set of images covering the entire sky taken with professional telescopes. The printed version is extremely expensive but it has now been digitized and is available in 10x compressed form on the Web from STScI and NASA and in 100x compressed form on 10 CDROMs from ASP. The CDROM version can be accessed from TheSky and several others; the online version can be accessed from Starry Night and a few others.
Web-based Planetariums
- WikiSky aka Sky-Map.org
- Heavens Above, concentrates on satellites
- SkyView Cafe, very nice!
- Your Sky, an online planetarium from John Walker
- StarMap from Mt. Wilson
- Starchart Map Server
- Skymaps.com, Free, high quality sky maps each month in PDF format
- BinoSky
- MyStarsLive, an online version of MyStars
- Space@home
- The Night Sky Atlas
- Horizons, an ephemeris generator from JPL (best accuracy)
- Solar System Simulator from JPL
- AstroViewer
- DeepSkyLive
- Neave Planetarium
- Sky Map Online
Other Computer Software
- source code for many astronomical algorithms
- Astronomy Freeware
- Astronomical Computer Software, a list at AstroNet
- Dan Bruton’s astro software list
- software from Sky Publishing
- Zephrys Services, reseller of astro software for Windows
- AstroGrav Astronomy Software, gravity simulation software for Mac and Windows
- Astro software for OS/2
- Astronomy Apps for Palm Pilot
- SEDS
- funet.fi
- AstroTips, a list of free astro software
- Linux for Astronomy
- Sky Screen Saver for Windows
- Orrery for RiscOS
- Visual Ephemeris for Uranian Moons by Dennis W. Tracy
- Lunar Map Pro
- Silicon Spaceships, programs for accessing NASA image data
- Newton’s Aquarium, learn about gravity
- PicoSky, a planetarium program for some cell phones.
- PP3, produces printed charts
- HP49 astro software
Data
- Comet orbital elements for many of the above programs
- Deep-Sky Planner
- Daily Asteroid Charts
- Nearest and Brightest Stars in VRML
- ECU User Object Files by Michael Cook
- Solscape, real time solar images & data, very nice; OS X
Misc
- MICA, high-precision astronomical data in tabular form
- ICE, an earlier, free version of MICA
- MAXCLOCK, time info (Windows only)
- 3D Starchart for BeOS
- Meridian, a planetarium program specializing in planets
- Astronomical Software & Documentation Service from STScI
- Hawaiian Astronomical Society’s Storybook and Deepsky Atlas
- Scientific Astronomer, a Mathematica application
- Approximate astronomical positions, source code
- another list of PalmOS astronomy software
- Emerald Chronometer for the iPhone
- Emerald Observatory for the iPad