WinStars - Astronomy

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WinStars 3 is a planetarium for almost any platform. Employing 3D technology to display our solar system in a realistic manner, users may tour the planets, follow a space probe on its long voyage, or observe a celestial event from a distant world, as well as receiving the latest astrophysical news from a live feed.

Updates add new features and functionality, transforming it into an advanced educational tool for discovering our Universe.

Main features:

- A default catalogue of over 2,500,000 stars (Tycho2).

- UCAC4 catalogue with more of 114 millions stars. WinStars downloads only data necessary from internet.

- A direction of observation which is easily controlled by a mouse and in real time.

- A precise representation of the observable sky from a point on the earth’s surface on a given date.

- A 3D interface to give more realism to celestial objects.

- Virtual textures to display high resolution surface details of planets.

- Travel throughout the solar system, to over 200,000 stars, the edge of our galaxy and beyond.

- Follows the latest scientific news by downloading additional modules.

- A calculation of notable astronomical phenomena visible from an observation point on the earth.

- Detailed information about each object.

- A calculation of the positions of the principal satellites of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, of comets and of asteroids.

- An outline of the celestial equator, the ecliptic, and a grid of azimuthal and equatorial coordinates.

- A 3D outline of the planetary orbits.

- drives a large range of telescopes.

- Internet resources are also available:

updated comets and asteroids’ elements, querying of DSS (Digitized Sky Survey) servers to obtain a photograph of that portion of the sky being displayed by the program, a notice of the visibility of artificial satellites, etc.

- Automatic modules updates.

By purchasing the full version of WinStars 3 (3.99€), you will be able to access all the functions of the software, and in particular :

- the Tycho2 and UCAC4 catalogues, adding 114 million stars.

- a digital version of a photographic atlas covering the entire sky (Digitized Sky Survey function).

- high-resolution textures of the Moon, Mars and Earth,

- additional modules (3D models, additional catalogues, scientific news...)

Visit https://winstars.net/en for more information about the software, access to forums and suggest new features.