OSX Astronomy programs

Anyone here a user of the joyousness that is OS X

I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows. I did use to have the student edition of The Sky but that was
a Classic app and tended to run pretty slow. I like Xephem but to run
it I need X11 and it doesn't look the prettiest, even though feature
wise its pretty awesome.

Just wondering if anyone had any good recommendations. I'm in love with
Octave/GnuPlot for programming, just looking for something nice and
visual.

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The true enemy of science is psuedoscience...

Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
Anyone here a user of the joyousness that is OS X

I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows. I did use to have the student edition of The Sky but that was
a Classic app and tended to run pretty slow. I like Xephem but to run
it I need X11 and it doesn't look the prettiest, even though feature
wise its pretty awesome.

Just wondering if anyone had any good recommendations. I'm in love with
Octave/GnuPlot for programming, just looking for something nice and
visual.


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

Jimbob wrote:
Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
Anyone here a user of the joyousness that is OS X

I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows. I did use to have the student edition of The Sky but that was
a Classic app and tended to run pretty slow. I like Xephem but to run
it I need X11 and it doesn't look the prettiest, even though feature
wise its pretty awesome.

Just wondering if anyone had any good recommendations. I'm in love with
Octave/GnuPlot for programming, just looking for something nice and
visual.


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

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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The true enemy of science is psuedoscience...

I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows.

snip

You could have a look at Cartes du Ciel, it works on Ubuntu Linux as does
Sky Map Pro with a bit of a fiddle.

Norman

In article , Norman
Silverstone wrote:


I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows.

snip

You could have a look at Cartes du Ciel, it works on Ubuntu Linux as does
Sky Map Pro with a bit of a fiddle.

Norman

OSX = Mac - I have a 14" iBook ..

--
The true enemy of science is psuedoscience...

Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:

Anyone here a user of the joyousness that is OS X

I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows. I did use to have the student edition of The Sky but that was
a Classic app and tended to run pretty slow. I like Xephem but to run
it I need X11 and it doesn't look the prettiest, even though feature
wise its pretty awesome.

I use Starry Night, which is about as good as they come for
prettiness. I also use EquinoX, but you can hardly call that pretty,
though it is very useful.


Tim
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Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
In article , Norman
Silverstone wrote:

I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows.
snip

You could have a look at Cartes du Ciel, it works on Ubuntu Linux as does
Sky Map Pro with a bit of a fiddle.

Norman

OSX = Mac - I have a 14" iBook ..


Chances are you'll be able to compile it for your Mac (I guess) using
the nasty X11 that you don't like ;-)

In article , Jimbob
wrote:

Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
In article , Norman
Silverstone wrote:

I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows.
snip

You could have a look at Cartes du Ciel, it works on Ubuntu Linux as does
Sky Map Pro with a bit of a fiddle.

Norman

OSX = Mac - I have a 14" iBook ..


Chances are you'll be able to compile it for your Mac (I guess) using
the nasty X11 that you don't like ;-)

You'll hurt its feelings ;-)

I dont mind X11, I use Fink to get some handy tools. I'm looking at
Equinox 6.00 now and I think I'll have a nosey at Cartes du Ciel....

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The true enemy of science is psuedoscience...

Jimbob wrote:
Phineas T Puddleduck wrote:
In article , Norman
Silverstone wrote:

I'm looking for a cool astronomy program, something like SkyMap Pro for
Windows.
snip

You could have a look at Cartes du Ciel, it works on Ubuntu Linux as does
Sky Map Pro with a bit of a fiddle.

Norman
OSX = Mac - I have a 14" iBook ..


Chances are you'll be able to compile it for your Mac (I guess) using
the nasty X11 that you don't like ;-)

Further investigation shows it to be a nasty Windows app! Noo good at
all for the iBook.