Cartes du Ciel
Cartes du Ciel ("CDC" and "SkyChart") is a free and open source planetarium program for Linux, macOS, and Windows. With the change to version 3, Linux has been added as a target platform, licensing has changed from freeware to GPLv2 and the project moved to a new website.
 Screenshot of Version 3 beta 0.1.0 | |
| Developer(s) | Patrick Chevalley |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 4.2.1
/ 24 November 2019 |
| Preview release | 4.3 beta-4244
/ January 4, 2021 |
| Written in | Object Pascal |
| Operating system | Cross-platform (Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux) |
| Type | planetarium Educational software |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | Cartes du Ciel homepage |
CDC includes the ability to control computerized GoTo telescope mounts, is ASCOM and INDI compliant, and supports the USNO's UCAC catalogs and ESA Gaia data, along with numerous other catalogs and utilities.
According to the programmer, Patrick Chevalley, it was released as freeware because "I’d rather see amateurs spend their money for a new eyepiece than for astronomy software".[1]
Chevalley has also created a lunar atlas program, Virtual Moon Atlas, which is also free and open source software.[2]
See also
- Aladin Sky Atlas
- C2A
- Celestia
- Digital Universe Atlas
- Google Mars
- Google Moon
- Google Sky
- HNSKY (Hallo Northern Sky)
- KStars
- NASA World Wind
- RedShift (planetarium software)
- Skyglobe
- Starry Night (planetarium software)
- Stellarium
- TheSky (astronomy software)
- Universe Sandbox
- WinStars
- WorldWide Telescope
- XEphem
References
- cloudynights.com
- virtualmoon on sourceforge.net