Celestia

 

I love the night sky, I used to spend hours looking at stars and planets with my 4-1/2" reflecting telescope when I was young. Now days, I rarely have the time to do that any more because of work and other things (like this blog). However, I did run across a very cool program that makes it easy to have a look around the sky. Its Celestia. This free multi platform open space exploration program is great. With it you can zoom in on where the International Space Station is, or check out the moons of Jupiter, or even see how our solar system looks from thousands of light years away.

Celestia