is a desktop astronomical simulator which can take you from your home to the outer reaches of the Universe and back.
Distant Suns lets you view the sky at the time of your birth, watch the sun set behind Saturn, land on Mars, follow newly discovered comets, and much more.
It displays over 20,000 stars, hundreds of galaxies, myriad star clusters, and numerous comets and asteroids.
You can create movies of astronomical events, zoom in and out, print star charts, and be alerted of any upcoming eclipses and meteor showers.
All documentation is included, along with astronomical tutorials, projects, and guides.
SETI@Home users are supported.
Please note that the program also runs on 32-bit versions of Windows.
Distant Suns SE runs on
Windows 3.1
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 4 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Astronomy.
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