Features

Sky

• Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and info for the brightest ones.
• Planets and major satellites in real time (with position computation accurate enough for eclipse or transit simulation).
• Asterisms of the 88 constellations with their names.
• Mythological figures of the 88 constellations.
• Images of more than 70 nebulas (Orion, M31 etc..).
• Photo-realistic Milky Way.
• Star twinkling.
• Shooting Stars.

Landscape & visualization

• Skinnable landscape (ground, fog, mapping of fisheye pictures).
• Ultra fast realistic atmosphere rendering (sunsets, sunrises etc...).
• Automatic eye adaptation to sky luminance using physiologic model.
• Grids in equatorial and azimuthal coordinates.
• Equator and ecliptic coordinates lines.

Navigation & rendering

• Smooth real time intuitive navigation.
• Powerful zoom to see planets and nebulae like through a telescope.
• Equatorial and altazimuthal mount mode.
• Standard perspective and wide angle (fisheye) projection modes (perfect for a planetarium dome).
• Time control (real time and accelerated time modes).
• Graphical menu for simple use.
• Clickable stars, planets and nebulas, with information.
• Windowed and fullscreen modes.
• Full dome (180°) projection mode for planetariums.
• Text user interface for planetariums.