In article , A. Peter
Hayes wrote:

Jimbob wrote:


Depending on what you want it for, try these: -

XEphem (the only free real planetarium program I've found)
Celestia
Stellarium
EquinoX (Shareware)

There's probably others that I've forgotten to mention.

HTH

Starry Night runs on OS X. All versions are paid for and expensive for
the higher level ones but the backyard version is what I've used since
moving from a PC with SkyMap.

Pete H

Thanks guys

I'm familar with SN as when I had a PC I used it a lot - and I think
this summer when I get some summer work done (Mature student doing
astrophysics here!) I'll be buying SN.

I don't mind Stellarium - I just want something that looks in place on
the OS X desktop ;-)

Thanks again!

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