Space simulator / planetarium

[jpx72]

Hey guys I just wanted to show to those, who might not know, some of my favourite space software:


Space Simultator "Celestia" (the BEST!!!)

ADDONS



Home planetarium "Stellarium"




Japanese space simulator project "Mitaka"

[Yukima]

Nice!! 

I'm definitely going to try these out, space nut that I am!

[Mindfreak]

I use Stellarium myself

Pretty cool program

[jpx72]

In my opinion, Celestia is the best out there. It's the most accurate and up-to-date space simulation ever, with gigantic forum for discussing, countless wonderfull addons (I was using it for ortophoto earth overview even before the Google-earth appeared) and script support for educational purposes.
One of my favourite addons is the star database - adds much more stars to Celestia (the software has only about 14000 in the installation package, but you can exchange the database with this - over 200 000 one):
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_addon_details.php?addon_id=1114
(although this bigger database has some location errors, I don't think you'll ever notice  )

[Yukima]

I looked on that website and was tickled to see add-ons for Star Trek star systems!    Those would be interesting to actually see!

[petik1]

Does anyone use space flight simulators? More specifically, Orbiter?

[jpx72]

You mean this one http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/home.php ?
Wow! I hope it's free, downloading now!

[petik1]

100% free, 100% awesome with add ons.