Stellarium Alternatives

Stellarium is described as 'Free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope' and is a very popular Star Map in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Stellarium for a variety of platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows and Android Tablet apps. The best Stellarium alternative is Celestia, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Stellarium are Sky Map, KStars, Space Engine and Noctua Stellarium.

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  1. Displays the sky view at the correct orientation when held at any angle not just landscape or portrait. Simple operation, no buttons to press or modes to select, just point to the sky to start exploring.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. WinStars icon
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    WinStars uses the latest 3D technology to show the objects of our solar system in a realistic manner. Thus, it is possible to move from one planet to another, to follow a space probe on its long voyage or to observe a celestial event from a place to which you could never go.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  3. Space Simulator is a realistic space flight simulator for iOS and Android. It is an open-ended simulation where players can free roam Solar System or reenact historical NASA space program missions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Aciqra icon
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    Aciqra (uh-SEE-kruh) is a free and open source virtual sky map and planetarium which tracks and displays astronomical bodies including planets, nebulae and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  5. Kosmorro icon
     1 like

    A software to calculate astronomical ephemerides.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
    • FreeBSD
     
  6. Star Tracker icon
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    Just hold up and point the device to the sky and have fun! You can see any stars, constellations and deep sky objects you are watching in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  7. Air Moon icon
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    Moon Phases AR

    • walking around and see how it occurs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  8. SkEye icon
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    SkEye is an advanced Planetarium that can also be used as a PUSHTO guide for telescopes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  9. The Night Sky app enables you to identify the stars, planets, galaxies, and constellations you can see above.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
     
  10. Systems Tool Kit (STK) is a platform for analyzing and visualizing complex systems in the context of your mission. Interact with data from platforms across the aerospace, defense, telecommunications, and other industries.

    19 Systems Tool Kit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. TOPCAT icon
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    It offers a variety of ways to view and analyse tables, including a browser for the cell data themselves, viewers for information about table and column metadata, and facilities for sophisticated interactive 1-, 2-, 3- and higher-dimensional visualisation, calculating statistics...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Java
     
  12. Solar Model icon
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    SourceForge presents the Solar Model project. Solar Model is an open source application. SourceForge provides the world's largest selection of Open Source Software. The Solar Model is real time modeling of solar system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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