Cartes du Ciel (Sky Charts)   v. 1.0   by Patrick Chevalley   Win95, Win98    13-Nov-99 The purpose of this program is to prepare different sky maps for a particular observation. A large number of parameters help you to choose specifically or automatically which catalogs to use, the colour and the dimension of stars and nebulae, the representation of planets, the display of labels and coordinate grids, the superposition of pictures, the condition of visibility and more. All these features make this celestial atlas more complete than a conventional planetarium.

Our Solar System   v. 1.0   by Grey Olltwit   Size: 868 K    Win95, Win98    29-Oct-99   A journey through the solar system similar to the screen saver available on this site, except that you can learn more about each of the planets. Whereas the saver is a rolling non stop tour you can stop the action and choose which planet you wish to view and learn more about.

Xearth for Windows   v. 1.0   by Greg Hewgill   Size: 170 K    Win95, Win98, WinNT    03-Jul-99   Xearth for Windows is a port of Kirk Johnson's original xearth program to Microsoft Windows. Xearth renders a shaded image of the earth on your desktop, as seen from your favorite vantage point in space. By default, the image is updated every five minutes according to the current position of the sun. One of the features of xearth is the ability to place markers on the globe at specific locations. Xearth comes with 76 locations built-in. If you know the latitude and longitude of a city, you can place a marker on your xearth map. The source code to Xearth for Windows is now available!

Nine Planets   v. 1.0   by MP Brown   Size: 5.6 M    Win95, WinNT    22-Jan-99   Visual tour of all the planets of Solar System and Asteroids.

Adastra   v. 2.0   by Swimming Elk Software   Size: 1974 K    Win95, Win98, WinNT    04-Jan-99

Approach the skies with this accessible and easy-to-use 32-bit planetarium. Adastra's varied and powerful functions are a significant subset of the acclaimed astronomy shareware package Stella 2000, offering highly realistic views of the night sky from any place on Earth or point in time. Adastra presents an intuitive toolbar-driven interface promoting flexible manipulation of its real-time sky display, with efficient center, zoom, unzoom, directional and panning functions. A single mouse click will bring a comprehensive report on any object visible in the sky at the moment of observation. Adastra will smoothly animate solar system objects in two modes against a stellar backdrop, create printable finder charts, search for constellations, DSOs, stars, and objects within the Solar System, in either point-source, spotlight, or the new photoplate display styles. Free registration is required from anyone who decides to continue using our software beyond its 60-day evaluation period.

Shadows   v. 1.0   by François Blateyron   Size: 984 K    Win95, Win98, WinNT    02-Jan-99   Sundial design software. The current version allows the creation of the following sundials: -Horizontal sundial, -Vertical direct south sundial, -Vertical direct east sundial, -Vertical direct west sundial, -Vertical declining sundial (-180° to +180°), -Sundial of any direction or incline. This software generates all of the necessary elements to create a sundial. The results can be displayed in several different ways. A database of locations is integrated into the software. It contains more than 550 cities all over the world and includes the latitude, the longitude and time scale. The user can also create any new location. French version available.

The Galilean Moon Plotter   v. 1.6 b   by Michael Moltenbrey   Size: 141 K    Win95    06-Aug-98   A very easy to use program which allows you to plot the positions of the four Galilean Moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) of Jupiter. You can even make the program draw a monthly chart of their relative movement around Jupiter. These charts / diagrams are similar to those which are printed in many astronomical magazines and annuals. GMP also gives you Jupiter's physical ephemerides and coordinates (RA, DEC (J2000.0)).

StarCalc   v. 5.0   by Alexander E.Zavalishin   Size: 611 K    Win9xx, WinNT    09-Jun-98   StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program today. 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 semispherical whole sky or any of the user defined sub-areas. These images can be zoomed at different scales, rotated, screen-captured and printed. Note: A number of plugin examples for StarCalc, which extened it's capabilities available from home page.

Free Virtual Galaxy Project   v. 1.0b   by Jim Smith   Size: 629 K    Win95, WinNT    12-Feb-98   Interactive 3D space program based on stellar data obtained from NASA and ESA. The program provides a virtual reality interface that allows the user to navigate stars in the nearby Milky Way Galaxy. 32 bit protected mode can be run in a DOS Window under Win95/NT. You can download also a STELLAR DATABASE: the database of the Hipparcos Catalog for all stars within about 1000 parsecs of the Sun (Sol). Total stars: >91,000. It's a huge download at 7.5 Mb compressed.

Solar System   v. 1.0a   by Michael Sunde and Bill Klein   Size: 405 K    Win95, WinNT    08-Dec-97   A program that uses Newton's laws to simulate the motion of the planets. You may be thinking that there are already programs that do this extremely well. So, what makes this program so special? Every other program that I have found on the internet only works in 2D. Which is fine for 2D systems, but not everything is 2D. Solar System on the other hand, is designed to simulate the movement of 3D systems like our solar system or anything that you can dream up.

The Nine Planets  by Bill Arnett   -    08-Jul-97   It can not be treated as Software (it is A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System) , but the Site is so great...      The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.

Exploring the States   v. 2.0   by Jackson and Tull   Size: 4.4 M    Win95, WinNT    09-Jun-97   Exploring the States implements multi-disciplinary teaching approaches using NASA technologies to enhance existing curriculum. Exploring the States uses images from NASA Landsat satellites and AVHRR to explore all 50 states with pictures and math. . The simple instructions (switches and buttons) guide students through three sections; Exploring the States, Naming the States and Traveling the States. The satellite images offer a unique way to capture students interest in a very basic subject matter . Our goal is to provide children the opportunity to learn about our Earth through observations and to be shown the benefits of space exploration. Audience: Grades 3 - 8.

The Hubble Space Telescope First Servicing Mission   v. 2.0   by Jackson and Tull   Size: 4.4 M    Win95, WinNT    09-Jun-97   The Hubble Space Telescope First Servicing Mission is a tutorial which uses NASA images to describe and explain the servicing mission. This software package is meant to be a technical guide containing reference material on the HST. The software uses extremely simple instructions (switches and buttons) to guide students through five topic sections on the HST Servicing Mission. The information presented is complicated, but it is made interesting by the use of actual photos of the Servicing Mission. Our goal is to provide children the opportunity to learn about new areas of space science. Audience: Grades 6 - 12.

Exploring the Earth   v. 2.3   by Jackson and Tull   Size: 4.4 M    Win95, WinNT    09-Jun-97   Exploring the Earth implements multi-disciplinary teaching approaches using NASA technologies to enhance existing curriculum. This module is a vocabulary and geography lesson from space using images from Landsat and other NASA and NOAA probes. It also uses simple instructions (switches and buttons) to guide students through land, sea and air features visible from space. The information presented is very basic, but it is made interesting by actual photographs of surface images and by trivia questions on each subject. Our goal is to provide children the opportunity to learn about our Earth through observations and to be shown the benefits of space exploration. Audience: Grades 3 - 8.

Exploring the Solar System   v. 5.1   by Jackson and Tull   Size: 4.4 M    Win95, WinNT    09-Jun-97   Exploring the Solar System implements multi-disciplinary teaching approaches using NASA technologies to enhance existing curriculum. This module predominantly uses images from the Hubble Space Telescope and other NASA probes to explore our solar system. It also uses extremely simple instructions (switches and buttons) and math to guide students through planets, moons, rings, asteroids and comets in our solar system. The information presented is very basic, but it is made much more interesting by actual photo images of other planets. Our goal is to provide children the opportunity to learn about our solar system and to be able to do something they have never done before. Audience: Grades 3 - 8

Exploring the Sun v. 2.2 by Jackson and Tull Size: 4.9 M Win95, WinNT 09-Jun-97 Exploring the Sun implements multi-disciplinary teaching approaches using NASA technologies to enhance existing curriculum. This module uses images from NASA, NOAA, and NSO to explore our Sun. It uses simple instructions (switches and buttons) with math to guide students through basic sun information, two science experiments and a fun multiple choice test. The information presented is very basic, but it is made much more interesting by actual photo images of the Sun. Our goal is to provide children the opportunity to learn about our Sun and to be able to do something they have never done before. Audience: Grades 6 - 12.

Exploring the Universe   v. 1.0   by Jackson and Tull   Size: 4.5 M    Win95, WinNT    09-Jun-97   Exploring the Universe implements multi-disciplinary teaching approaches using NASA technologies to enhance existing curriculum. This module is a reading comprehension and math lesson from space using images from the Hubble Space Telescope, ground photos and other NASA probes to explain the universe. It also uses extremely simple instructions (switches and buttons) to guide students through the solar system, stars, galaxies and universe. The information presented is very basic, but it is made much more interesting by actual photographs and questions on each subject. Our goal is to provide children the opportunity to learn about our universe through observations and to be shown the benefits of space exploration. Audience: Grades 6 - 12.

Astronomy Slide Show   v. 2.1   by Jay Robertson   Size: 3.0 M    Win95, WinNT    09-Apr-97   Full Screen, Astronomy Slide Show! Now includes awesome images of Comet Hale-Bopp!

Home Planet   v. 3.0   by John Walker   Win95, WinNT    28-Feb-97   A comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking package. It allows you to view: An earth map, showing day and night regions, location of the Moon and current phase, and position of a selected earth satellite. Panel showing positions of planets and a selected asteroid or comet, both geocentric and from the observer's location. A sky map, based on either the Yale Bright Star Catalogue or the 256,000 star SAO catalogue, including rendering of spectral types, planets, earth satellites, asteroids and comets. Databases of the orbital elements of 5632 asteroids and principal periodic comets are included, allowing selection of any for tracking. A telescope window which can be aimed by clicking in the sky map or telescope itself, by entering coordinates, or by selecting an object in the Object Catalogue. And more and more and more...

Sky Screen Saver for Windows 95   v. 2.1   by John Walker   Size: 191 K    Win95, WinNT    28-Oct-96   The Sky Screen Saver shows the sky above any location on Earth, including stars (from the Yale Bright Star Catalogue of more than 9000 stars to the 7th magnitude), the Moon in its correct phase and position in the sky, and the position of the Sun and all the planets in the sky. Outlines, boundaries, and names of constellations can be displayed, as well as names and Bayer/Flamsteed designations of stars brighter than a given threshold. A database of more than 500 deep-sky objects, including all the Messier objects and bright NGC objects can be plotted to a given magnitude. The ecliptic and celestial equator can be plotted, complete with co-ordinates. To fulfill its mission as a screen saver, the sky map shifts position on the display every 10 minutes to avoid burning in those few components of the display which do not move as the Earth revolves. Installation Instructions are here.