Exosolar is a pretty nice online star map with a lot of detail and infinitely customisable views. A perfect way to spend the afternoon travelling light years away from home.
Exosolar is a pretty nice online star map with a lot of detail and infinitely customisable views. A perfect way to spend the afternoon travelling light years away from home.
A few open source or free astronomy applications as well:
Cheers
Wow, did that get messed up some how, apparently I don’t understand how the link tags are supposed to work. I’ll just put them in regular style to avoid further humiliation.
http://stellarium.sourceforge.net – Stellarium
http://www.shatters.net/celestia – Celestia
Ooh nice. Don’t worry about the formatting. :-)