Offering realistic views of your night sky from any location on any date, Adastra presents an intuitive, toolbar-driven interface for quick manipulation of its real-time sky display. You can control centering, zooming, directional, and panning functions. A single mouse click will bring a comprehensive report on any object visible in the sky. Adastra smoothly animates solar system objects against a stellar backdrop, creates printable finder charts, and searches for constellations, stars, and planets, in either point-source, spotlight, or the new photoplate display styles. This version includes two hypertext reference works--Coeli Solar Guide and Astrogloss and The Concise HTML Dictionary of Astronomy--interface enhancements, bug fixes, and other new features.
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Company: Swimming Elk Software
Version: 2.5
Release date: April 14, 1999
File size: 2.1MB
Approx. download time: 9 min. at 28.8 kbps
Downloads: 20,293
License: Free
Minimum requirements: Windows 95/NT, 2MB VRAM
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Approach the heavens with Adastra, and explore your night sky from any location or date. Adastra permits quick, toolbar-driven manipulation of its real-time sky display, with center, zoom, directional, animation, and panning functions. Choose from immediate, horizon, and zenith views, with or without grid lines. You can optionally display constellations and planet and star names and send the current map to the printer. A single mouse click will bring a comprehensive report on any object visible in Adastra's sky. An excellent search feature automatically scrolls celestial objects into view. Adastra is nothing less than a simulation of the stars, planets, and other celestial bodies in their courses as seen from Earth. Best of all, it's free!
