Get Stellarium - it is fantastic... and free!

My friend Peter just turned me on to Stellarium!

It is a FREE (open source) planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic 3D sky, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a scope.

It is being used in planetarium projectors. Download it for free and use it on your computer!

You'll get:

• over 120,000 stars from the Hipparchos catalogue with info
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• images of nebulae
• realistic Milky Way
• realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
• planets and their satellites

interface

• a powerful zoom
• time control
• scripting to record and play your own shows
• fisheye projection for planetarium domes
• graphical interface and extensive keyboard control

visualisation

• equatorial and azimuthal grids
• star twinkling
• shooting stars
• eclipse simulation
• skinnable landscapes

customisability

• add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

Dowload Stellarium here: http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/