Experience accessible astronomy with a real-time sky, comprehensive reports, arcsecond accuracy, and exciting events such as animation and live tracking. Easy mouse-manipulation of the sky brings planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and a multitude of stars to your fingertips in real-time.
And let TimeLine graphically show the effects of precession down through the millennia...
The Distant Suns-Grand Tour 3D screen saver is a high-speed full motion solar-system simulator using OpenGL technology and accelerated graphics.The positions and rotations of each of the planets and their moons are accurate to the current date and time! Watch the moons of Saturn in their daily dance around the majestic ringed world or the Earth rotate under your feet. Rated 4 stars by PC Mag (June 8, 2004)
Integrated astronomy software suite exploring realistic skies in real time, with observing log, Sky Quiz, Live Orbits (orrery), telescope support, spoken pronunciation guidance, a half-million word Encyclopedia Astronomica, and concentrated searches embracing planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and up to 300,000 stars.
Astro-Mania teaches all the important facts about 38 astronomical objects such as planets and stars. It has a learning database that includes essays, images, and lists of all the important facts for each of the 38 space objects. The space objects include the nine planets, stars and star types, asteroids, meteorites, galaxies, and more.
Educational orbit and gravitation simulator for high school, college and beginning university physics and astronomy. Easily create, run, print and save a simulation. Includes 29 introductory to advanced premade simulations with activities page in html-format. Uses actual pictures of planets. Plot orbits in a plane or in 3D. View time, distances, speeds, accelerations and energies as they change. Zoom and change parameters during the simulation.
Adastra Plus is a complete astronomy experience, with real-time sky, comprehensive reports, arcsecond accuracy, and exciting events such as animation and live orbital tracking. Two encyclopedic reference sources interactively link to the sky display, with planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and a multitude of stars. Let Sky Quiz quickly build familiarity with your local sky, as TimeLine shows the effects of precession through the millennia...
The prime purpose of Gravitorium is to let you play with ideas about gravity and gravitational systems. While it's not intended to be a highly accurate solar system simulator, at low speeds its accuracy is really pretty good. And, best of all, it lets you "play universe maker". Throw in a few extra planets, add a black hole, set a comet plunging towards the Earth! Or create an entirely new solar system from scratch.