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AstroTray


Bringing the Galaxy to your System Tray!






Zero-dollar shareware from Swimming Elk






creators of the widely acclaimed Stella 2000 Virtual Observatory


Take the sky from your System Tray at a moment's notice with this accessible 32-bit planetarium. AstroTray's versatile and powerful display is the most significant component of that acclaimed astronomy shareware package Stella 2000, offering highly realistic views of the night sky from any place on Earth or point in time. AstroTray presents an intuitive toolbar-driven interface promoting flexible manipulation of its real-time sky, with efficient center, zoom, unzoom, directional and panning functions, along with atmospheric effects such as dynamic sky, until now only available in our top-of-the-line

Stella 2000 Extended Edition


AstroTray will smoothly animate solar system objects in two modes against a stellar backdrop, create printable finder charts, show constellations, DSOs, stars, and objects within the Solar System, in either point-source, spotlight, or the new photoplate display styles. Added to all of which, AstroTray is absolutely free.


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