KStars is a an open source freeware planetarium program from KDE, the linux platform group. KStars is available for Windows, requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable to run on PCs and it will automatically download it if it is not installed. The program features 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects and thousands of comets, asteroids, satellites and… Continue reading Freeware Astronomy With KStars
Month: February 2017
Freeware Planetarium Hallo Northern Sky
Hallo Northern Sky is an educational, fun and fascinating planetarium program for windows and linux machines. It features around 30,000 objects and many more stars in its catalogue and can find any of them, provide descriptions and high resolution pictures with planets ones showing surface features. It can retrieve updated information online for more objects such as… Continue reading Freeware Planetarium Hallo Northern Sky