Stargazer's Delight

Description

Stargazer's Delight shows you:

• all the stars up to magnitide 10 (over 260,000 stars)
• the sky, seen from any location on earth
• planets, minor planets, galaxies, star clusters etc.
• all constellations and their boundaries, the phases of the moon, the apparent brightness of the planets, the length of day...
• the paths of the planets, animations of the sky, great pictures of the planets etc.
• animated tutorials on selected astronomical questions and much more!

Changes in version 5.0:

• Stars can be displayed according to the zoom factor (that means only the bright ones will be drawn in a big field of view and the more you zoom in the more stars appear). There's more data available for each star, incl. spectral type, SAO Number and more.
• Besides the huge star database there are a few small improvements like control-clicking on the stars to get information without always having to close the data window.
• Various bugs and issues are fixed, among others:
  • the centering on certain constellations was wrong
  • a bug in the pop-up menus in the search star window
  • better display of the magnitude
  • some stars around the poles weren't drawn in certain situations

English and German versions available.

Author

Ruedi Schmid

Status

Demo - only a few locations are available until the program is registered. $20 (US), 30 Swiss Francs or DM40-.

Note

Version 5.0.1 has been released, but the archives for the application at the author's site seem to be corrupted. The patches are okay, so I've included those. Download both version 5.0 and the appropriate patch.

Application

• Download Stargazer's Delight 5.0 for PowerPC English [MacBinary 4733 Kb]
• Download Stargazer's Delight 5.0 for PowerPC Engliah [BinHex 6433 Kb]

• Download Stargazer's Delight 5.0 for PowerPC Deutsch [MacBinary 4721 Kb]
• Download Stargazer's Delight 5.0 for PowerPC Deutsch [BinHex 6418 Kb]

Patches

• Download Stargazer's Delight Patch 5.0 -> 5.0.1 English [MacBinary 133 Kb]
• Download Stargazer's Delight Patch 5.0 -> 5.0.1 English [BinHex 181 Kb]

• Download Stargazer's Delight Patch 5.0 -> 5.0.1 Deutsch [MacBinary 133 Kb]
• Download Stargazer's Delight Patch 5.0 -> 5.0.1 Deutsch [BinHex 181 Kb]

68K Application (version 4.6)

• Download Stargazer's Delight 4.6 for 680x0 [MacBinary 2639 Kb]
• Download Stargazer's Delight 4.6 for 680x0 [BinHex 3589 Kb]

• Download Stargazer's Delight 4.6 for 680x0 Deutsch [MacBinary 2627 Kb]
• Download Stargazer's Delight 4.6 for 680x0 Deutsch [BinHex 3571 Kb]

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