Features
- Sky feature
- Over 600,000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue and the Tycho-2 Catalogue
- Extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- Constellations from ten cultures
- Images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
- Realistic Milky Way
- Realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- Planets of the solar system and their major moons
- Ability to display stars and other celestial objects as seen from reference points other than the Earth (e.g. Saturn, Phobos, comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) or any other object defined in ssystem.ini)
- Interface
- Zoom
- Time control
- Multilingual interface
- Scripting to record and playback shows
- Fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- Spheric mirror projection for personal domes
- Graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- Telescope control
- Visualization
- Equatorial and azimuthal grids
- Star twinkling
- Shooting stars
- Eclipse simulation
- Skinnable landscapes
- Spherical panorama projection
- Customisability
- Deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts etc. can be added.
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