Astronomy Software for Mac

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Browse free open source Astronomy software and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Astronomy software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.

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    Stellarium

    Stellarium

    A planetarium software that shows a 3D simulation of the night sky

    Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.
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    astap program

    astap program

    Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer

    ASTAP, Astrometric STAcking Program, astrometric solver and FITS image viewer. This program can view, measure, "astrometric (plate) solve" and stack deep sky images. Main features: - Stacking of astronomical images including dark frame and flat field correction - Native fast astrometric (plate) solver. - Alignment using an internal star match routine, internal Plate Solver, manual or ephemeris. - FITS viewer with swipe functionality, deep sky and star annotation, photometry and CCD inspector. - Annotation of solar and deepsky objects. - Photometry of point sources, extended sources and variable stars - Blink routine for astro images.
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    Sky Chart / Cartes du Ciel
    SkyChart is a software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs. See main web page for full download. This software is part of a full suite for astronomical observation: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdciel/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/indistarter/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/eqmodgui/ Requirement: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpasastro/ See also: https://sourceforge.net/projects/indi/
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    Downloads: 1,335 This Week
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    Gpredict

    Gpredict

    Real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction

    Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. Gpredict can track an unlimited number of satellites and display the data in tables and various graphical view.
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    Downloads: 309 This Week
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    Celestia

    Celestia

    Real-time 3D visualization of space

    Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.
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    Downloads: 90 This Week
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    PreviSat

    PreviSat

    Satellite tracking software

    PreviSat is a satellite tracking software for observing purposes. Very easy to use, it shows positions of artificial satellites in real-time or manual mode. PreviSat is able to make predictions of their passes, predictions of MetOp and COSMO-SkyMed flares, transits of all satellites, predictions of Starlink satellites passes and several other calculations.
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    Downloads: 108 This Week
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    HEALPix

    HEALPix

    Data Analysis, Simulations and Visualization on the Sphere

    Software for pixelization, hierarchical indexation, synthesis, analysis, and visualization of data on the sphere. Please acknowledge HEALPix by quoting the web page http://healpix.sourceforge.net (or https://healpix.sourceforge.io) and publication: K.M. Gorski et al., 2005, Ap.J., 622, p.759 Full software documentation available at https://healpix.sourceforge.io/documentation.php Wiki Pages: https://sourceforge.net/p/healpix/wiki/Home Exchanging Data with HEALPix (in FITS files): https://sourceforge.net/p/healpix/wiki/Exchanging%20Data%20with%20HEALPix/ GDL and FL users should read https://sourceforge.net/p/healpix/wiki/HEALPix%20and%20GDL/
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    Downloads: 445 This Week
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    A code for fast multi-dimensional density estimation . Instead of assuming an a-priori metric definition, it calculates a locally adaptive metric for each data point by using, a Shannon Entropy based, binary space partitioning scheme.
    Downloads: 334 This Week
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    Mars Simulation Project
    The Mars Simulation Project is an open source Java project to create a simulation of future human settlement on the planet Mars. See https://github.com/mars-sim/mars-sim for the LATEST issues/wiki/code change
    Downloads: 43 This Week
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    Lynkeos

    Lynkeos

    Lynkeos is an astronomical webcam image processing software for OS X.

    Lynkeos is a Cocoa® application dedicated to the processing of astronomical digital images taken through a telescope. It is optimized for SSE vectorized instructions sets, multi-processor and multi-core machines.
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    Downloads: 56 This Week
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    CCDciel

    CCDciel

    Astronomy CCD capture software

    A CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer. It include all the features required to perform digital imaging CCD observation of celestial objects. Using the standard drivers protocol INDI and ASCOM it can connect and control the CCD camera, the focuser, the filter wheel and the telescope mount. This software is part of a full suite for astronomical observation: https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/indistarter/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/eqmodgui/ Requirement: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpasastro/ See also: https://sourceforge.net/projects/indi/
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    Downloads: 80 This Week
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    libpasastro

    Provide Pascal interface for standard astronomy libraries

    Provide shared libraries to interface Pascal program with standard astronomy libraries. libpasgetdss.so : Interface with GetDSS to work with DSS images. libpasplan404.so: Interface with Plan404 to compute planets position. libpaswcs.so : Interface with libwcs to work with FITS WCS. This libraries are used with the following projects: https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdciel/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualplanet/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualmoon/
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    Downloads: 70 This Week
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    ASIStudio

    ASIStudio

    All-in-one Astrophotography Software Works on multi-OperatingSystem

    Downloads: 78 This Week
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    Xplanet is a solar system simulator which calculates accurate positions for the major planets and satellites. It displays multiple bodies, eclipse shadows, and customizable labels and markers.
    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    p3d

    p3d

    General data-reduction tool for fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs

    p3d is a general data-reduction tool for use with fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs (IFSs); although, the spectrum viewer works with spectrum data cubes of any origin. The tool is built about the proprietary software IDL (Harris/EXELIS; see http://www.harrisgeospatial.com), but can be used without any license. Most slowly running loops are implemented in parallelized C (OpenMP).
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    Navigational Algorithms

    Navigational Algorithms

    Navigational Algorithms - Marine navigation

    - Celestial Navigation: Sight Reduction, Line Of Position, Fix... - Positional Astronomy: Nautical Almanac, RA, GHA, Dec - Coastal Navigation: Range, Bering, Horizontal angles, IALA... - Sailings: Rhumbs, Loxodromic, Orthodromic, Meridional parts... - Weather , Tides - Software: PC, Android https://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/
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    Downloads: 31 This Week
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    HNSKY

    HNSKY

    Hallo Northern Sky planetarium program

    Welcome to the semi professional free planetarium program HNSKY for MS-Windows and Linux. This program can control your telescope via the ASCOM or INDI interface, has a comprehensive up to date deep sky database with 30.000 objects and detailed descriptions. A star database with millions of stars and hundreds of Deep Sky Survey images which blends in accurately. Additional the program can access the online version of the Deep Sky Survey allowing online update of the asteroid and comet databases and it can search on-line in professional astronomical databases. Is provided with menu's in 22 languages and it is totally free without any advertisement or restriction!! Free with 30.000 deep sky objects and native star databases up to magnitude 18. Online access to GAIA DR2, UCAC4, NOMAD and PPMXL star catalogues or download the USNO UCAC4 up to magnitude 16. The Sun, Moon, the planets and their major moons are all displayed with surface features. It maps the position of co
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    Downloads: 53 This Week
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    PROPER Optical Propagation Library

    Routines for wavefront propagation in IDL, Matlab, and Python

    PROPER is a library of routines for the propagation of wavefronts through an optical system using Fourier-based methods. It was developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for modeling stellar coronagraphs, but it can be applied to other optical systems were diffraction propagation is of concern. It is currently available for IDL (Interactive Data Language), Matlab and Python (3.x). It includes routines for generating complex apertures and obscurations and aberrations (Zernike & PSD-defined). It includes a model of a deformable mirror for wavefront control. The routines perform near and far field propagation with automatic selection of propagators. The latest version is v3.3.1 (IDL & Matlab) and v3.3.4 (Python). Please report any bugs using the Tickets tab.
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    Downloads: 41 This Week
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    Perl Data Language
    The PDL module gives standard perl the ability to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets that are the bread and butter of scientific computing.
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    libnova

    Celestial Mechanics Engine

    libnova is a general purpose, double precision, celestial mechanics, astrometry and astrodynamics library.
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    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    DarkLight Cover/Calibrator

    DarkLight Cover/Calibrator

    DIY project to build a cover, flat panel or combo flip-flat panel

    The DarkLight Cover/Calibrator (DLC) is a DIY project to build a motorized telescope cover, flat panel, or a combination flip-flat system. Its modular design supports various setups: a 12V light panel without a servo for a wall-mounted calibration panel, a servo-only cover for sky flats, or both integrated into a flip-flat mechanism. The DLC also includes optional dew heating to reduce extra equipment and cabling. With available drivers, it works with ASCOM or INDI. We’re excited to announce that the DarkLight Cover Calibrator project has officially moved to GitHub! 🔗 New GitHub Repository: 👉 https://github.com/10thTeeAstronomy/DarkLight_CoverCalibrator © Nathan Woelfle 2025. All Rights Reserved. Permission granted for personal and academic use only. Code may not be copied or used without proper credit.
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    Pulsar software for forming timing residuals. Developed mainly by George Hobbs and Russell Edwards at the ATNF.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    libadb

    Astronomical Database

    libadb is an astronomical catalog management library desgined to provide fast access to astronomical object data.
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    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Quantum Shield Orbital Defense Detection

    Quantum Shield Orbital Defense Detection

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    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    A library of C codes for storing and managing nuclear reaction networks, that is, ensembles of nuclear species and reactions among them.
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