Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Webcam to Wallpaper Auto updates your wallpaper with web camera views from around the world Over 200 sites to view and climbing + your own Picture folders

We live in a world where some things continue to get smaller and others have come to life in mammoth proportion. The new Discovery Channel series, Really Big Things, will profile the inner workings of massive man-made wonders that keep our world moving. Our host Matt Rogers will bring the audience up close with big machines, giant telescopes, massive structures and other really big things that are changing the way we live.

TheSky6™ Astronomy Software is used by more observatories, controls more automated telescopes and is used in more classrooms than any
other astronomy software. For over twenty years, astronomers worldwide have relied on TheSky for everything from a visual observation guide to turn-key telescope control center.
TheSky6 has extensive databases that are chocked full of celestial information, all accessed at incredible speeds on a dazzling graphical display.
Add to that ingenious tools like the Moon Viewer, Eclipse and Conjunction Finders, Data Wizard, Image Link, and native telescope control,
and you'll understand why TheSky6 is astronomy’s engine.

TheSky6™ Astronomy Software is used by more observatories, controls more automated telescopes and is used in more classrooms than any
other astronomy software. For over twenty years, astronomers worldwide have relied on TheSky for everything from a visual observation guide to turn-key telescope control center.
TheSky6 has extensive databases that are chocked full of celestial information, all accessed at incredible speeds on a dazzling graphical display.
Add to that ingenious tools like the Moon Viewer, Eclipse and Conjunction Finders, Data Wizard, Image Link, and native telescope control,
and you'll understand why TheSky6 is astronomy’s engine.

How Do They Do It?
Ever wondered how the stripes get into toothpaste or how contact lenses are made? How do goods get from one country to another and then into our supermarkets? What are car tyres made from and exactly why are plasma TV screens flat?

National Geographic presents the first accurate non-stop voyage from Earth to the edge of the Universe using a single, unbroken shot through the use of spectacular CGI technology. Building on images taken from the Hubble telescope, Journey to the Edge of the Universe explores the science and history behind the distant celestial bodies in the solar system.

Since the advent of astronomical CCD imaging it has been possible for amateurs to produce images of a quality that was attainable only by universities and professional observatories just a decade ago. However, astronomical CCD cameras are still very expensive, and technology has now progressed so that digital cameras ???�??? the kind you use on holiday ???�??? are more than capable of photographing the brighter astronomical objects, notably the Moon and major planets.
Tony Buick has worked for two years on the techniques involved, and has written this illustrated step-by-step manual for anyone who has a telescope (of any size) and a digital camera. The color images he has produced ???�??? there are over 300 of them in the book ???�??? are of breathtaking quality.
His book is more than a manual of techniques (including details of how to make a low-cost DIY camera mount) and examples; it also provides a concise photographic atlas of the whole of the nearside of the Moon ???�??? with every image made using a standard digital camera ???�??? and describes the various lunar features, including the sites of manned and robotic landings.

StarGaze HD brings the beauty and majesty of the Universe to your HD Home Theatre. Journey beyond the stars with images from the Hubble Space Telescope Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. With over an hour of astounding images set to ambient music StarGaze HD will quickly become a favorite in your Blu-ray collection.

JFK Reloaded v1.1 (Free Game) As I watch the limo creep down Dealey Plaza, I put my finger on the trigger and peer down my rifle's telescope. I can see my target in the cross hairs. It's Nov. 22, 1963. I'm trying to kill the president.

Auto updates your wallpaper "desktop background" with web camera views from around the world Over 350 sites to view and climbing + Your own Picture folders + Your internet favorites

EditByBSEditor: Who has not been dazzled and intrigued when lifting his gaze to the celestial vault on a clear, dark night? The spectacle of those fleeting and distant lights racks both our eyes and our brains. Is this star farther away than that one, or is it simply less luminous? Is that little blot, barely visible over there, a Nebula, a Star Cluster or a galaxy?

MaxIm DL Pro is the fastest and easiest way to image the night sky. Whether you want to produce stunning portraits, collect science data, or hunt for new objects, MaxIm DL has the tools you need.

Version 5 adds a host of new capabilities, making imaging and processing faster and easier than ever before. The Maxim DL Pro Suite version includes MaxPoint telescope mount modeling and pointing refinement software.

* New image file thumbnails and both XP and Vista style open/save dialog boxes
* Load and save complete program configures
* Processing log window
* Star profile graph
* New Stack command
* Automatically or manually generate multiple stack groups, including complete LRGB groups
* Automatically grade all images for quality, and only include images meeting your criteria
* View grading information for individual images, with manual override
* Export image grading information
* Pre-measure alignment for all images prior to stacking
* Calibrate on-the-fly during stacking; saves time and disk space - New Drizzle capability
* Automatically perform LRGB stack after combine
* All images in LRGB set are aligned to single reference image
* Load up hundreds or thousands of images with multiple different targets, click Go, and MaxIm DL will automatically assemble all of your LRGB sets ready for final processing
* Wavelet filters for image enhancement
* Easier to use Color Convert (debayer), with presets for many popular camera models
* Remove Background Color
* New Program Levels

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope???�???bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

Travel where you've never been before! For the advanced amateur astronomer, the full-color AllSky CCD mosaic, sophisticated telescope controls and comprehensive observational tools included in Starry Night Pro Plus version 6 will engage you in the hobby like no other software. The biggest single addition to Starry Night software since its inception, the full-color AllSky CCD image mosaic of the entire night sky visible from Earth weighs in at 6.44 billion pixels in size.

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope???�???bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

A corporation Microsoft presented public beta-versiyu online service of WorldWide Telescope, allowing to get access enormous database information of astronomic character. Service of WorldWide Telescope allows the amateurs of astronomy and professional scientists to explore star sky from the personal computer, to get information about the Planetary system, galaxies, fogs and other objects of spaces.
For work with service of WorldWide Telescope it is necessary to load and install the client program. On the whole, new service unites terabayty of graphic and concomitant information, collected the largest surface observatories and telescopes of spaces, including orbital x-ray photography observatory of "Chandre", telescopes of "Habbl" and "Spitcer". Users can look over images, got on different wave-lengths, approach the areas of pictures, watch position of objects of spaces at different times and other.