Complete feature list

Revision as of 20:34, 6 November 2007

A list of features and specifications of version 0.8.0 (to be completed, feel free to correct, add or rearrange). For features in future versions, please see Future features.

Basic controls

• Look around by mousedragging, or moving your mouse against the edges of the window

• Time control: forward, backward, return to present

• Zoom

• Tabbed configuration windows

• Text user interface: minimalistic menu for use with dome projections

• Clickable world cities map to set coordinates

• Save your default location

Observation

• All stars from the Hipparcos catalogue

• The planets of our solar system, and their natural satellites

• All Messier objects

• All NGC objects

• Planet orbits

• Cardinal points

• Azimuthal grid

• Equatorial grid

• Ecliptica

• Equator line

• Meridian line

• Moon scaling

• Object trails

• Asterisms and names of the constellations

• Constellation boundaries

• Compensation for light travel time

• Equatorial/azimuthal mount

• FOV

• Disc viewport

• Observation from another planet, and as solar system observator

Landscapes

• Fisheye projection

• "old_style" projection, i.e. a ground texture and a number of side textures

• Spherical panorama projection

Viewing

• Constellation art for the 88 Western constellations stemming from Greek mythology

• Realistic atmosphere

• Fog near the earth's surface

• Star twinkling

• Meteor showers

• Full screen or windowed mode

• Perspective projection

• Fisheye projection

• Stereographic projection

• Spherical mirror projection

• True Type font rendering

• Frames per second display

• Frame rate limiter

• Gravity labels for use in a dome

Localization

• Sky culture: Western, Chinese, ancient Egyptian, Polynesian

• Sky localization

• Application localization

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