Turn your desktop into the ultimate planetarium.
· Astronomical Record Breakers and Photo Gallery with spectacular images.
· The complete Hipparcos and Tycho-2 stellar catalogues.
· Travel
through time to observe the skies from any vantage point on Earth or in our solar
system from 4173BC to 9999 AD.
· Capture your voyages in space with
the movie recorder.
· Use the high precision Sky Diary to plan your
night's observations.
· Track thousands of satellites, asteroids and
comets.
| IMPROVED DATABASE | ALL MOONS OF PLANETS | MACRO-PLAYER |
| ADD IMAGE | IMPORT DATA | NEW MOONS |
| METEOR SHOWERS | MAGNIFICATION | FULL SCREEN |
| SATELLITES |
NEW FEATURES: 
· Hubble Guide Star catalogue 2, Tycho Double Star catalogue.
·
Catalogues of optically visible open clusters and candidates, variable stars,
quasi-stellar objects and BL Lacertae.
· Updated catalogue of 50,000
asteroids from the Bowel Database.
· Expanded database of Deep Sky
Objects from the Caldwell Catalogue.
· Revised high resolution maps
of planets obtained from the latest space missions showing all the recently discovered
moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
· Displays of Solar corona
with total eclipse event, Meteor showers, "quasi-realistic" images of
comets (with nuclei and tails)
· Night vision option - screen dimming
and reddening - useful for observers.
· Improved Display Mode - on-screen
labels, full screen display without bars, or display multiple use objects such
as stars, comets, asteroids and spacecraft in the Sky Window.
· Flip
view to mirror image as seen through your own telescope.
· Macro-player
to view the collection of guided tours of space illustrating fascinating aspects
of astronomy.
· Quick set-up of the sky view with newly integrated
Open GL technologies.
AUTOMATIC IMPORT MASTER
Tomorrow's space
discoveries can be easily imported and integrate from specialised Internet sites.
EXPLORE
SPACE
RedShift 5 contains a colossal number of celestial bodies: 20 million
stars, the Milky Way, more than 70,000 deep space objects, nebulae, star clusters,
galaxies and quasars.
COMETS & ASTEROIDS
Recreate the impact of
the famous Shoemaker Levy comet on Jupiter. The exact motions of comets and asteroids
are calculated by the numerical integration engine allowing you to simulate their
movements
SPACECRAFTS
Instantly visualize thousands of spacecrafts -
from the International Space Station to the Voyager probes travelling to the back
lands of the Solar System.
| Operating System: | Windows ME, 98, 2000, NT4 |
| CPU: | 200 MHz Pentium or compatible |
| RAM: | 32 mbytes |
| Screen display: | 800 x 600, High colour (16 bit) |
| Audio: | 16 bit sound card |