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Aciqra

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Simulates the night sky as seen from anywhere on the planet and enables you to quickly and easily save the current view as an image. #Solar system  #Astronomy viewer  #Planet viewer  #Planetarium  #Planet  #Star  

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Aciqra is an open source software application that enables you to view the night sky. It can track 120.00 stars, all 8 planets in our solar system, the 88 constellations, comets, the sun and moon.

The interface is simple and intuitive, permitting both experienced and beginners to use it without encountering any difficulties. The main window displays several buttons that let you access all the options available. In addition to that, it shows information for the current view, including the exact time (month, day, year and hour), longitude, latitude and elevation.

You can show or hide a number of astronomical objects, including stars, deep space objects (galaxies, nebulas, clusters), constellations, ground, natural satellites, earth’s shadow and equatorial or horizontal grid. Images of the current view can be saved to the HDD in a BMP file format (Aciqra\save).

By default, most stars, solar systems, deep space objects and constellations are tagged, but you can easily disable this option. The labels are customizable, seeing they can be set to show brightness, color, common or scientific names and size. Clicking on an astronomical object enables the program to display information about it, such as type, equator and horizontal coordinates, apparent magnitude, surface brightness and size.

This tool opens along with a command prompt window in which you can make all sorts of changes. In the program files you can find a TXT file with all the command lines which can be applied.

Aciqra is a home planetarium that can help you follow the night sky from anywhere on Earth. CPU and memory usage is moderate and the utility features drag and drop navigation.

What's new in Aciqra 2.3.3:

  • Fixed memory leak when selecting objects
  • New plugin system of tools
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Aciqra 2.3.3

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Aciqra - Aciqra allows you to view all the planets, stars and constellations in our solar system.Aciqra - This is how you can activate the night vision mode of the application and view the sky.
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