SolStation - On-line Star Maps

clipped from www.solstation.com SolStation.com Free for personal use . . . On-line Star Maps - Right click and drag to view the local stars in 3D. Double-click to learn more about notable nearby stars and to see orbit animations of multiple star and planetary satellite systems. The 27 light-year (ly) test map provides instructions in a handy right border and displays up to 250 objects. The bigger Nearby Star and Bright Star maps display up to 999 objects each. ChView™ Software - Make your own maps. On-line version to run web page applets using Java from Sun Microsystems. PC version for Microsoft Windows. ChView2 -- alpha release under development -- for Apple, Linux, and other users of Java runtime environments. Extreme Celestical Objects - information on interesting objects beyond the Solar Neighborhood, with links to maps of the larger universe (created by other amateur and professional astronomers).