the SkyScape planetarium

"SkyScape" is a planetarium program, which will calculate and display the positions of the planets and more than 9000 stars, for any given time and place on Earth. It is easy to use, with attractive, versatile and accurate graphics, and is designed to help locate and identify planets, stars and constellations in the night sky.

"SkyScape" is a Java^(TM) application, so it can be used under various operating systems, including Unix, Macintosh, Solaris and Windows.

I wrote it a few years ago, and use it frequently. There are still features that I haven't got around to implementing. It's provided here, in a ready-to-use form, 'as is', without warranty, free of charge, in the hope that it might be interesting to some, or even useful. Enjoy!

• Picture Gallery:
  Here are a few sample screen images, to show what it'll do.
  
  
• Readme:
  Read the program documentation.
  
  
• Download program:
  This is an executable java file called skyscape.jar; the command line to run the program is java -jar skyscape.jar. In a suitable graphical environment, you should be able to run the program by clicking on the jar file.
  
  

If you have tried using this program, please feel free to mail me any helpful :-) comments. Thanks.