Tag: STELLARIUM

If you are an Astronomy buff like me, you've probably wished that you could see a better view of the night sky, besides the one from your kid's binoculars that don't really make anything look great. Perhaps you have trouble finding things in the night sky, like me. I have found three great apps that let you do just that. First is Meade's TeleStar software (click on TeleStar software on the page). ...

One of these days I expect Google to come out with "Google Galaxy" or some similar outward-looking companion Google Earth. But we don't need to wait for Google, as there's some good free offerings out there for people wanting to stargaze from the comfort of their computer. Among them is Stellarium, an open source, multi-platform desktop planetarium. Stellarium features over 120,000 catalogued ...