Real-time talking astronomy planetarium
Complete astronomy suite comprising a full-featured planetarium, observing log and list builder, Coeli Time Line, Live Orbits (orrery), location browser, Sky Quiz, and sophisticated searches embracing planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and up to 300,000 stars.
Planetarium effects include scintillation, extinction, refraction, and precession in point source, photo plate and spotlight display styles; along with the complete Messier catalog in image icons.
An integral HTML guide to the solar system, a 1000-term astronomical dictionary, and the 2nd revised and enlarged edition of Aspects of Astronomy -- a book-length primer covering topics such as "What are the Celebrities ! ", "Choosing a Telescope", "Cosmology", "Dark Matter", "Eclipses", and "The History of Astronomy", to name but a few -- are closely coordinated with the atmosphere display and picture windows.
Stella 2000 talks and teaches aloud. With total incorporation of Microsoft Real estate agent speech technology, animated character types lead you painlessly through the pronunciation of a myriad of arcane celebrity titles and lore, and actually study aloud from Astrogloss and Elements of Astronomy, not to mention giving that most immediate form of system help: spoken guidance.
Stellas Pull Mode brings total plasticity into all your relationships with the planetarium display. Pulling the mouse auto-scrolls atmosphere quadrants efficiently and quickly into see from three selectable aeroplanes of guide: Horizon (nearby), Equatorial (atlas), and Ecliptic / Heliocentric. Stella provides direct links to considerable DSO and planetary info on the Web, all tightly unified with the Atmosphere display, Reports, and the Coeli Solar Guideline.
Auto-Search instantly updates readouts and reports on any object your mouse pointer scrolls over. You may actually slew your Meade ETX/LX200 telescope to the object selected in Stellas atmosphere.
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