COELI SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
Virtual Observatories
Ad Astra - Toward the
Heavens
FREE ASTRONOMY
SOFTWARE
From the creators of the widely acclaimed Stella 2000 Virtual
Observatory
Approach the skies
with this accessible and easy-to-use 32-bit planetarium.
Adastra's varied and powerful functions are a
significant subset of the acclaimed astronomy
shareware package Stella
2000, offering highly realistic views
of the night sky from any place on Earth or point in time.
Adastra presents an intuitive toolbar-driven interface
promoting flexible manipulation of its real-time sky
display, with efficient center, zoom, unzoom, directional
and panning functions.
A single mouse click will
bring a comprehensive report on any object visible in the
sky at the moment of observation. Adastra will
smoothly track planets, comets, and asteroids in
both fast forward or real-time against a stellar
backdrop, create printable finder charts, search for
constellations, DSOs, stars, and objects within the Solar
System, in either point-source, spotlight, or the new
photoplate display styles. Added to all of
which, Adastra is completely free.
A complete and accessible
astronomy experience is in store -- with real-time sky,
comprehensive reports, arcsecond accuracy, and exciting
features such as animation and
live
tracking. Adastra's powerful search encompasses
planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and a multitude of
stars, making exploration of the sky in real time
easy. The natural
Drag Mode
introduces a new navigational ease to the sky display,
for smooth, head-turning views of the heavens.
Adastra's
point-and-click Solar
Guide will take you on a tour of our Solar System
interactively linking to both Sky and Picture windows.
Astrogloss
A-Z is a dictionary of over 1000 astronomical
terms, integrated tightly with Adastra's Search and display. So
when you click on an object in the sky, Adastra will bring up
that object's definition in the Dictionary.
A precision tool for
the archaeo-astronomer, Coeli's TimeLine (alias 'Stella BC')
can graphically demonstrate the dramatic effects of precession
down through the millennia, seeking out that remote First Time,
when Vega and Deneb were Pole Stars...
Adastra offers
five celestial
projections in which to observe the night sky on your PC,
in either resizeable windows or full screen mode. Advance,
retard, or animate the simulation's clock by years, months,
days, and minutes of sidereal or solar time, tracking any
selected object through the sky in both real-time or
fast-forward.
You have just crossed a frame-free
sector of the Galaxy