Cartes du Ciel
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This article is about a piece of astronomy software. For the star mapping project with a similar name, see Carte du Ciel.
| Cartes du Ciel | |
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 Screenshot of Version 3 beta 0.1.0 |
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| Developed by | Patrick Chevalley |
| Latest release | 2.76 / 2004-11-23 |
| Preview release | 3 beta 0.1.4 / 2007-12-30 |
| OS | Windows, GNU/Linux |
| Genre | planetarium |
| License | GPL |
| Website | Version 2 (stable) and Version 3 (beta) |
Cartes du Ciel is an open source planetarium program for Linux and Windows. With the change to version 3, Linux has been added as a target platform, licensing has changed from freeware to GPL and the project moved to a new website.
This software can be downloaded from http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/. It maps out and labels all the constellations, planets, and almost anything else you can see with a telescope.
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