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• Display the paths of the Sun and
Moon, planets, asteroids and comets,
with respect to the background stars
and the horizon.
• Display equatorial, horizontal,
ecliptic, and galactic
coordinate-system lines, as well as
the positions of the
coordinate-system poles, the
equinoxes and solstices, and other
important points in the sky.
• Display finder circles like those you
see through a Telrad reflex sight or a
similar sighting device.
• Save maps to files and open them
again later, just like saving and
opening documents in a word
processor. Many sample maps are
included. You can also save maps as
Windows bitmap, GIF, JPEG, PNG,
and TIFF images.
• Print beautiful, high-quality maps on
any printer supported by Windows, in
black and white or in full colour. Use
print preview to see what a printed
map will look like before you print it.
• Use night-vision mode to preserve
the dark adaptation of your eyes
while using the programme outdoors
as you observe the night sky.
• Use the animation feature to watch
objects move across the sky, solar
and lunar eclipses take place, moons
revolve around planets, and many
other astronomical events unfold at
whatever pace you desire.
• Display a view of the planets and
their orbits around the Sun. This view
appears in a separate window, so you
can watch the planets revolve around
the Sun and see them move across
the sky at the same time.
The Planetarium combines an
impressive visual recreation of the
constellations that make up our
expansive universe. Using the
motorised Planetarium to project the
rotating universe onto a ceiling, children
will learn to identify groups of stars and
be able to point at them with the light
pointer. Children can choose to watch the
stars move across the ceiling or listen to a
commentary about the planets (not part of the
light show) just by a simple flick of a switch. The
enclosed CyberSky CD is full of details about
stars, constellations, planets and other
phenomena in the night sky.
Planetarium
CyberSky lets you do all of the following, and
much more.
• View colourful, detailed maps of the sky
as seen from any location on the Earth at
any moment from 15,000 BC to 15,000 AD.
• Display constellations, asterisms, about 2.5
million stars, over 5,500 deep-sky objects,
the Milky Way, the Sun and Moon, planets,
both moons of Mars, Jupiter’s four brightest
moons, Saturn’s eight brightest moons, the
five brightest moons of Uranus, Neptune’s
brightest moon Triton, asteroids, comets
and meteor showers.
• Display proper-motion vectors, which are
lines that show the speeds and directions
that the stars are moving.
• Display the cross-section of the Earth’s
shadow at the distance of the Moon, which
lets you see the circumstances of lunar
eclipses.
Your CyberSky CD Features:-
WHEN YOU LOOK
UP AT THE SKY ON A
CLEAR NIGHT YOU CAN SEE
STARS, BUT WHAT ARE THEY?
STARS ARE BALLS OF GAS HELD
TOGETHER BY THEIR OWN GRAVITY.
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE SUN IS A
STAR
, AN INCREDIBLY HOT BALL OF
GLOWING GASES AT THE HEART OF
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM? WITHOUT THE
SUN’S INTENSE ENERGY AND
HEAT, THERE WOULD BE NO
LIFE ON EARTH.
THE
MOON IS
APPROXIMATELY
384,400KM FROM EARTH
.
EVEN THOUGH IT IS ONE OF
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
OBJECTS IN THE NIGHT SKY,
SECOND ONLY IN BRIGHTNESS
TO THE SUN, IT IS ACTUALLY
SMALLER THAN OUR PLANET;
AT JUST A LITTLE MORE
THAN A QUARTER OF
THE SIZE (27%).
TAKE
TIME TO LOOK
AT THE CONTENT
OF THE
CYBERSKY
CD
IT IS JAMMED
PACK WITH DETAIL
ABOUT OUR
UNIVERSE
• View detailed
information about
objects, as well
as information
about the seasons
of the year, the
beginning and end of
twilight, the visibility of the
planets, and the phases of the Moon.
• Customise the programme’s user
interface by rearranging menu
commands and toolbar buttons,
adding commands you use often to
new or existing toolbars, and
reassigning keyboard shortcuts to
your liking. You can also customise
the application’s appearance by
selecting among eight Office-like
themes.
CyberSky CD © Stephen Michael Schimpf.
All rights reserved.
THE SUN
IS
109 TIMES
BIGGER
THAN
PLANET
EARTH!
