• default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
• extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
• constellations for 20+ different cultures
• images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
• realistic Milky Way
• very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
• the planets and their satellites
• a powerful zoom
• time control
• multilingual interface
• fisheye projection for planetarium domes
• spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
• all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
• telescope control
• equatorial and azimuthal grids
• star twinkling
• shooting stars
• eclipse simulation
• supernovae simulation
• skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
• plugin system adding artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more
• ability to add new solar system objects from online resources
• add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts, and more
• Realistic simulation of the sky, sunrise and sunset • Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars • Downloadable additional catalogues for up to 210 million stars • Catalog data for all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects • Images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way • Artistic illustrations for all 88 modern constellations • More than a dozen different cultures with their constellations • Solar and lunar eclipse simulation • Photorealistic landscapes (more are available on the website) • Scripting support with ECMAScript (a few demo scripts are included) • Extendable with plug-ins: 8 plug-ins installed by default, including: • Artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database) • Ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular) • Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC) • Telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible)