Astronomy software
helping you chart and find objects.
There are a lot of astronomy software out there. Some for windows some for Unix some even for cell phones.
I couldn’t imagine life without my astronomy software on my laptop although I have seen a lot of people starting using PocketPC and Palm’s with some really cool software. free astronomy software is easy to come by.If you are a hardcore astronomer I would recommend using a flavor of Unix like Linux on your laptop. That will give you a large choice of free software (open source). If you just want something simple of course there are still free version for windows.
You may see that you have a choice of Java programs. I recommend these based on the fact that I switch between Mac OSX and windows all the time and I can run them on both computers. In the end it is really about trying and seeing if you like it yourself.
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