- You can easily move and look in any direction.
- Find stars by name or constellation.
- Fly to any star or galaxy with a keypress.
- Observe the stars and constellations from near the sun then watch them change as you fly to other stars.
- Make the known planetary systems flash so you will know where they are in the sky. Or, hover several light-years away from the sun and see where they really are.
- Select stars by distance, magnitude (brightness) and spectral type (color).
- Select galaxies by distance or group.
- If you were at Alpha Centauri or Vega, where would the Sun be? How would Orion and The Big Dipper (Ursa Major) look?
- Includes all visible stars and many nearby stars too dim to be seen with the naked eye.
- Works with Windows95 and all Windows systems since then.
- No special installation required, just unzip it and run.
- Uses OpenGl graphics like the best video games.
Presets allow you to instantly
- View the constellations from the Sun.
- View all stars out to 50 light years (both visible and invisible from earth) from the outside
- View all the available galaxies at once from the outside.
- View only galaxies near our own
- View our place in our galaxy
- Visit the center of our galaxy without the nuisance of an encounter with a singularity
- Watch the stars spin around you in a restful sort of way
- Watch galaxies spin restfully
And it's not overpriced, either!
- No charge for students (or science fiction authors).
- Schools buy one copy and let any number of students use it at the same time. (Students may also make copies and take them home)
- Registration is only $5.00 and is good forever, even upgrades in the future.
Get to know our real neighborhood. It's almost as simple as looking up, and beautiful as only Nature can be.
Galaxies are colored according to their relative velocity so you can see the expansion of the universe. Stars are colored according to their spectral type. One button switches between color and black-and-white.
More than 3,000 downloads worldwide and not one complaint. Science-fiction and space-travel fans, visit the places you've heard and read about, then fly back home in time for tea.
Recently upgraded with more planetary systems, stars by name, "find" and "fly-to" capability, constellation lines, pan and tilt, and an outline of our own galaxy so you can see where the Milky Way appears in the sky, or visit the center of our galaxy without performing groundbreaking black-hole experiments. More exciting upgrades are planned for the near future.