EasySky

EasySky is an outstanding astronomy software that will show you the complete night sky and our solar system in a 3D view with the planets, comets, and asteroids from any place at any time.

Here are some key features of "EasySky":

￭ Multiple Document Interface (MDI) - more than one window simultaneously ￭ Huge database ￭ PPM with 340,000 stars included ￭ GSC with 15 million stars supported ￭ NGC, Messier with more than 13,000 objects ￭ All asteroids (converter for update included) ￭ Comets ￭ Freely definable horizon (mountains, houses, ...) ￭ Animation with all objects in real time or arbitrary steps ￭ Fixing of an arbitrary object in the screen center ￭ Animation of Jupiter's satellites ￭ Trails of planets, asteroids, and comets ￭ Printing of star charts ￭ 3D solar system view ￭ Different animation possibilities also in the solar system ￭ Location and time arbitrarily eligible ￭ Settings can be saved as documents and later be loaded again ￭ Many images of galaxies, planets - "slide show" ￭ Realistic display by the use of grey levels ￭ Colors freely adjustable (user dependent) ￭ Keyboard shortcuts for quicker handling

Limitations:

￭ Sky view: ￭ Stars only to 7 m ￭ no GSC ￭ Deep-Sky objects only to 10 m ￭ only numbered asteroids ￭ no user asteroids ￭ no user objects ￭ no calculation of ephemerides ￭ only 2 simultaneous trails possible ￭ shows up "Demo Version" (also in printouts) ￭ Solar system view: ￭ only numbered asteroids ￭ "sitting on objects" not possible ￭ only 2 simultaneous orbits possible ￭ only 2 simultaneous markers possible ￭ shows up "Demo Version" (also in printouts)