We recommend these great astronomy programs:
Sky in Google EarthAn excellent program that can provide tours among some of the most interesting routes you can imagine. See stars, constellations and even the movement of planets in the sky. Great for learning, exploring and just enjoying the night sky.
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Stellarium - PC PlanetariumStellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
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SkyView Free - Explore the UniverseSkyView Free is powerful, easy-to-use, and answers these questions and more. Simply point the camera to the sky, tap on what you see and discover neat things about these sky objects. SkyView Free is unique as it blends the camera view with incredible 3D graphics of the sky objects to provide an Augmented Reality (AR) view of your sky.
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Hubble Top 100 - Image Gallery for iPad
Feel the Universe at your fingertips and access a universe of knowledge with the ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images, which brings users the best Hubble pictures from ESA, as NASA’s partner in this international project.
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