features
Sky
- default catalog of over 600, 000 stars
- extra catalogs with more than 177 million stars
- default catalog of over 80, 000 deep-sky objects
- extra catalog with more than 1 million deep-sky objects
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for 20 different cultures
- images of nebulae (full Messier catalog)
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- the planets and their satellites
Realistic Milky Way
interface
- a powerful zoom
- Time control
- multilingual interface
- all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
fisheye projection for planetarium domes spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
visualization
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- tails of comets
- iridium flares simulation
- eclipse simulation
star twinkling shooting stars
supernovae and novae simulation 3D Sceneries skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customizability
- plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
- ability to add new solar system objects from online resources …
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts …
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