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Celestia     View Screenshot

 

 

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"A real-time 3D space simulator that allows to to travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless;

the zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A point and go interface makes it simple to

navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit, just select it with your mouse and click on Go To from the menu. You can also retrieve additional information on the

object from web sites, that are linked from the menu. Celestia comes with a demo tour and several pre-selected tours. You can capture views as images and record your travels as movie

file as well. "  --Snapfiles.com

4/5 stars

 

4.93/5 stars

 

4.5/5 stars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IRIS    View Screenshot

 

 

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"IRIS is astronomical images processing software that provides a full range of features to enhance, correct and process digital astronomical images, optimized for CCD captures. It can open digital raw formats, as well as BMP, FITS and PIC as well as images from the Buil-Thouvenot Atlas. The many features include noise suppression, distortion correction, stacking of image sequences, spectra processing, sun chromosphere image

processing, frame grabbing via webcam and much more."

--Snapfiles.com

5/5 stars

 

5.0/5 stars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maestro     View Screenshot

 

 

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"A scaled-down version of the program that NASA scientists use to operate Spirit and Opportunity. Updates are also available for Maestro that contain real data from Mars that you can add to your copy of Maestro."  --Majorgeeks.com

4.5/5 stars