Objects
in Power
Age Sky Simulator
4
-
Stars.
As a major base for stars is used the GSC-ACT catalog. It
contains about 19 million objects (up to magnitude 15).
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Major
planets;
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Satellites
of Jupiter and Saturn. Much
extensive tools are available concerning the satellites of
these two planets. You can see screenshots in the Screenshots
section;
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Comets
and asteroids.
Power
Age Sky Simulator operates
with comets and asteroids. You can download the latest data
sets from the Downloads
section.
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Deep Sky
Objects.
Power
Age Sky Simulator 4 uses
the Wolfgang
Steinicke's corrected NGC/IC catalog as primary source for
deep sky objects. The catalog is from January 27, 2003. It
contains entries for exactly 14,000 objects.
Four main
types of view !
Power
Age Sky Simulator has
four different sky presentation views :
- Standard
View -
standard well looking multicolor presentation of sky;
-
True
View -
a very close approximation of the real sky;
- Red
View -
the sky in black and red colors;
- Black&White
View -
multicolor presentation of the sky (the default);
See
samples in the Screenshots
section.
Telescope
Control
Telescope control
is one of the new features in Power
Age Sky Simulator 4.
It is implemented by ASCOM
(Astronomy Common Object Model) technology. You need to
install the ASCOM Platform on your computer if you want to use
the telescope control feature. The original ASCOM installer is
part of Power
Age Sky Simulator 4 installer.
Print sky
charts
Printing
charts is very extensive feature in Power
Age Sky Simulator.
Actually you can print exactly what you see on the chart
window. Also you can do color and black&white charts.
Print preview is available. Any visible celestial element can
be customized (see Colors
& Fonts below).
Ephemerides
Power
Age Sky Simulator 4 can
do ephemerides for all solar system objects for any desired
period of time, in the past or in the future. You can
customize the tables of the ephemerides - columns and number
of entries. Also you can view, print and save results in text
files (*.txt).
Colors &
Fonts
One
of the sweet feature of Power
Age Sky Simulator is
the capability to change colors and fonts of all celestial
elements in any view
(Standard, True, Red and
Black&White) as well as when printing charts. Actually,
you can fully customize the look of your
Power Age (and of your
Power Age sky charts, of
course).
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