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Stellarium – open source planetarium

Stellarium is a software project that allows people to use their home computer as a virtual planetarium.

AstroImageJ (AIJ) is a simple and powerful tool for astronomical image analysis and precise photometry.

SkyChart is software that lets users draw sky charts, making use of the data in 16 catalogs of stars and nebulae.

KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software by KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky.

OpenSpace is an interactive data visualization software designed to visualize the entire known universe.

Aladin Desktop is software to visualize and manipulate digitized astronomical images or full surveys.

Virtual Moon Atlas is software that allows users to observe and study the moon and its surface.

Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in NumPy arrays.

Digital Universe Atlas is a free open source software planetarium application, available under the terms of the Illinois Open Source License.

Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (ORSA) is a framework for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations.

PreviSat is a satellite tracking software for observing purposes. It shows positions of artificial satellites in real-time or manual mode.

mars-sim is a Java-based open source project that simulates the activities of the first generation of settlers on Mars.

SkyViewer is an OpenGL based program to display HEALPix-based skymaps, saved in FITS format files. Written in C++.

Cosmonium is a 3D astronomy and space exploration program.

AstroML is a Python module for machine learning and data mining.