I have created another variant of starchartjs that uses HTML5 Canvas element with normal browsers and excanvas (VML emulation of Canvas) with Internet Explorer: http://ivan.ivanych.net/dev/starmap-canvas/.
New version uses Rey’s constellation figures with more stars and lines (it was driving force for Canvas migration, as Canvas is faster).
It also draws planets (I could add it to old SVG/VML version too).
Please, test with various browsers and platforms.
P.S. Here are competitors: http://www.staratlas.com/!!!
Updated at Jan 2012: StarchartJS is now open-source, you may see better demo at http://www.skyandme.com/dev/starchartjs/.
Tags: astronomy, javascript, sky, starchartjs
