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XEphem Publisher's Description:
A scientific-grade interactive astronomical ephemeris package. Here are some of the main features:
- computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for all objects;
- has built-in support for all planets; the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Earth; central meridian longitude of Mars and Jupiter; Saturn’s rings; and Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
- allows user-defined objects including stars, deepsky objects, asteroids, comets and Earth satellites.
- offers many large databases including Tycho, Hipparcos, GSC, USNO.
- displays data in configurable tabular formats in conjunction with several interactive graphical views;
- graphically displays a 24 hour period showing when any selected objects are up;
- displays 3-D stereo views of the Solar System that are particularly well suited for visualizing comet trajectories;
- quickly finds all close pairs of objects in the sky;
- sorts and prints all catalogs with very flexible criteria for creating custom observing lists;
- can create plots of any pairs of all data fields throughout the program;
- downloads AAVSO light curves directly online;
- many more enhancements
What’s New in this Version
- Device control
- Image gallery
- Observer’s log
- Realtime solar images
- Lunar images
- Revised catalogs
- Improved object management
- Improved AAVSO support
- Image annotation
- Binary star obits
- Browser-based help
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