Best Open Source Astronomy Software 2025

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Browse free open source Astronomy software and projects below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Astronomy software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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Stellarium

A planetarium software that shows a 3D simulation of the night sky

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

344 Reviews

Downloads: 2,987 This Week

Last Update: 2025-08-18
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Sky Chart / Cartes du Ciel

SkyChart is a software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs. See main web page for full download. This software is part of a full suite for astronomical observation: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdciel/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/indistarter/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/eqmodgui/ Requirement: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpasastro/ See also: https://sourceforge.net/projects/indi/

45 Reviews

Downloads: 1,533 This Week

Last Update: 2025-11-03
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Celestia

Real-time 3D visualization of space

Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.

116 Reviews

Downloads: 84 This Week

Last Update: 2016-04-08
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Observation Manager

Java based astronomical logging software which stores it's data in a free and open XML based format (OpenAstronomyLog). Discontinued project: Please check out the fork: https://github.com/capape/observation-manager for an updated version

3 Reviews

Downloads: 2 This Week

Last Update: 2020-06-16
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Halachic Times

Jewish prayer times

Android application that displays list of halachic/halakhic times for Jewish prayers (zmanim and zmanei tefillot).

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2019-02-22
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