HNSKY or Hallo Northern Sky is a popular
free and open-source planetarium program for
Linux
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,
macOS
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,
Microsoft Windows, and
Raspberry Pi
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to simulate the night sky. It is provided with several non-English language modules, numerous astronomical catalogues, conversion utilities and tools, as well as several stellar databases.
HNSKY was originally created by Dutchman Han Kleijn in 1998, who continues to develop and maintain the application. It is available in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
Initially a basic planetarium program, it has expanded in functionality to include the ability to control computerized
GoTo telescope mounts, and is
ASCOM and
INDI compliant and supports the
USNO
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's UCAC catalogs and
ESA
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Gaia data.
See also
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Planetarium software
Planetarium software is application software that allows a user to simulate the celestial sphere at any time of day, especially at night, on a computer. Such applications can be as rudimentary as displaying a star chart or sky map for a specific t ...
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List of observatory software
References
External links
Hallo Northern Sky Home Page
Astronomy software
Science software for Windows
Science software for Linux
Pascal (programming language) software
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