Seeing Stars on my Mac

September 15, 2004 10:15 AM

What's a good freeware/open source astronomy application for the Mac? I know that one exists but my Google skills haven't been too hot today. What I really want is something that will display a realtime starchart for me with the ability to look up the positions (declination, etc) of each of the stars.
posted by adrianhon to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Cloudy Nights has what looks like a useful page on Mac astronomy software.
posted by Songdog at 10:25 AM on September 15, 2004

Celestia .. ???
posted by stuartmm at 10:47 AM on September 15, 2004

Response by poster: The problem with Celestia is that while it's a good space simulator, it can't really generate annotated star charts.
posted by adrianhon at 11:17 AM on September 15, 2004

I believe the last version of Knoppix I tried included KStars. I don't know if it's possible to run that on a Mac.
posted by salmacis at 5:46 AM on September 16, 2004