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Stellarium
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.
http://www.stellarium.org/ - Details

SATBUSTER
SATBUSTER for Windows is especially designed for satellite visual observers and trackers. Its users, mainly amateur astronomers, radio amateurs and satellite trackers, appreciate both the accuracy and the simple to use graphical interface.
http://www.satbuster.com/engmain.html - Details

Paint.NET
About Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html - Details

RTGUI
Quickly find Planets, Messier Objects, Caldwell Objects, NGC/IC Objects, Named Stars, and > 2,500 Double Stars, by Constellation, Altitude, Magnitude, etc..
http://www.debunker.com/astro/rtguipage.html - Details

MicroObservatory
• Optimize an image's brightness/contrast automatically, by either linear or logarithmic scaling. • Colorize images using several false color tables. • Invert an image's color table. • Increase image contrast and detail using "sharpen" filter. • Reduce the noise in an image. • Manipulate full screen magnification. • Show image information for individual pixels by cursor placement.
http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatoryImage/ - Details

ASTROBYTE LOGGING SYSTEM
The AstroByte Logging System is an easy to use database to keep all your astronomical observations together in one package. It contains over 10,000 of the best pre-selected objects along with a form to enter new selections. It keeps track of objects, which you have observed, along with objects that you still need to observe to fill a catalog. Features: Contains 6 different Database entry forms: 1. Complete Messier Catalog 2. The SAC 7.2 Deep Sky Database Which includes: The complete NGC catalog The Messier Catalog The Caldwell Catalog The Herschel 400 And many other objects! 3. Solar System Logging Form 4. The 110 Best of the NGC Logging Form 5. The 110 Best Multiple Stars 6. A Custom Database for your own objects Contains 40 printable reports: 1. Completed objects reports 2. Incomplete object reports 3. Observing Worksheets 4. Catalog printouts 5. Plus, many more….
http://mainbyte.com/astrobyte/ - Details

Project AstroFly
Features You can fly anywhere in space. Each star is depicted with its "real" color. You can filter stars by many parameters. Simplified Wireframe of Our Milky Way Galaxy is available. You can check a star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Finding a famous star by its names is available. You can study constellations.
http://www.anumajor.com/astrofly/index.html - Details

Astronomer's Digital Clock
Shows you current universal time, Julian date, GST and local sidereal time.
http://users.zoominternet.net/~matto/ - Details

World Wind
World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html - Details

Project AstroFly
AstroFly is a software project, which is intended for educational use; thus, if you are interested in astrophysics, it may help you to expand your knowledge about our Universe. Its main purpose is to present the three-dimensional models of our neighborhood in our own Milky Way Galaxy on a personal computer.
http://www.anumajor.com/astrofly/ - Details

GIMP
GIMP features a great fullscreen mode
http://www.gimp.org/ - Details

GrandTour
Voyager and Giotto Space Mission Simulator GRANDTOUR can simulate space as seen from the Voyager and Giotto spacecraft. In addition, GRANDTOUR can generate scenes from arbitrary points in space or the Earth, with the spacecraft visible to the observer. The planet, moons, and rings of interest (or comet, nucleus, and tail), stars, the sun, and the spacecraft are all accurately drawn with wireframe representations.
http://www.faithreason.org/grandtour/ - Details

irtual Reality Simulator for the ISS
A summary of simulator features * Predict the telescope view from any point on Earth * Automatically predict flight mode (XVV or XPOP) * View close up from space or as seen through a telescope at your location * Accurate Earth and all stars to 6th magnitude * Automatic or user adjustable panel angles * Automatically select elements added for missions 5A, 4R, 7A and 8A depending on the date of the simulation
http://www.zen32156.zen.co.uk/ISSSim.htm - Details

GeoFusion's 3D
Try our web-enabled GeoPlayer with streaming content. Fly through high resolution Earth and Mars imagery and terrain. Includes multiple global and local high resolution color datasets. This site will be continuously updated with new data and "gateways" to 3D content rich sites.
http://www.geofusion.com/MarsDemo/ - Details

FOOTPRINT
Satellite Tracking Program
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wxsatellite/footprint.htm - Details

C2A Planetarium
C2A Planetarium Software allows you to build detailed views of stellar fields. An important objective of this software is to take into account the main catalogues available to professional and amateur astronomers
http://astrosurf.com/c2a/ - Details

Nova
Nova for Windows has become the most popular Windows-based satellite tracking program in the world. In use by NASA, the U.S. Air Force, industry, and thousands of amateur radio operators, Nova sets the standard for excellence.
http://www.nlsa.com/index.html - Details

Celestia
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ - Details

WinOrbit
Orbital prediction is determining where a particular object will be at a particular time (past, present or future). This can be done with a general mathematical description of the motion of the satellite (in other words, some equations), and some parameters specific to a particular satellite.
http://www.sat-net.com/winorbit/ - Details

FitsPlug v1.0
FITS plugin for Adobe Photoshop for Windows from V5 to CS3
http://astroshed.com/fitsplug/fitsplug.htm - Details

Openuniverse
Strictly spoken it's a piece of software, simulating the Solar System's bodies in 3D on your Windows or Linux PC (will work in most *NIX's as well). In difference to quite a few other programs it does so in realtime. Meaning you can view all the planets, moons and spaceships move along their paths, trace them,...
http://www.openuniverse.org/ - Details