Aciqra Portable was specially designed as an Open Source desktop planetarium. The program is able to simulate the sky as seen from anywhere on the planet with tracking capability for 120,000 stars, all 8 planets, a custom list of comets, the sun and moon, deep sky objects and the 88 constellations.
Aciqra Portable is an easy-to-use, useful and entertaining home planetarium.
By default, it also comes with several widgets including a planetary data grapher, eclipse predicter, solar system overview as well as a planetary location list.
Here are some key features of "Aciqra Portable":
· Tycho-2 star catalog w/ 2.5 million stars
· Full NGC and IC catalogs w/ 13000 deep space objects
· Interface designed for efficiency
· Correction for atmospheric refraction
· Night vision mode
· Correction for nutation and precession
· Calculate proper motions for stars
· Selecting objects to show details
· Constellation boundaries
· Option to save a view as an image
· Angle indicator (simulates views from an eyepiece)
· Comets and asteroids tracking
· Earth's umbra and penumbra for lunar eclipse simulations
· New release updater and downloader
Requirements:
· Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed night vision mode's background color
· Update checker and downloader
· Internationalized planet names
· Simulate lunar eclipses (show Earth's umbra and penumbra)
· Fixed blending for the first frame
· Support for asteroids and comets
· Angle indicator which shows a circle of a user-defined angle
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