SkyMap Pro 11

SkyMap Pro 11 is an advanced and sophisticated star charting and planetarium program that’s used by thousands of astronomers across the world.

SkyMap Pro 11 is the result of almost 20 years of planning and development, guided by the feedback of practical amateur astronomers across the world. It can display the sky as seen from any location on earth for any date between 4000BC and 8000AD. SkyMap Pro 11 shows fields of view ranging from the entire visible sky down to a detailed telescopic “finder chart” for a faint galaxy.

SkyMap Pro 11 is primarily controlled via simple “toolbars” and is easy to learn and get to grips with. A tutorial manual included on the CD and detailed "on line" help system provides extensive operating instructions and reference information.

Good Reasons for Using SkyMap Pro 11:

•SkyMap Pro 11 allows you to easily and flexibly move your map around the sky, rotate and zoom in and out with a single click of the mouse

•SkyMap Pro 11 displays more than 2.5 million stars as faint as magnitude 15, displayed in their approximate true colours

•View more than 200,000 deep sky objects - star clusters, nebulae, galaxies - virtually every object which can be observed by a small amateur telescope (and many that can't) is included in SkyMap Pro 11's extensive database

•Display the positions of the Sun, Moon, and major planets. SkyMap Pro 11 fixes positions with an accuracy of a small fraction of an arc second

•SkyMap Pro 11 displays the names, official boundary lines, and "stick figures" of all 88 constellations

•Display the positions of all known asteroids and comets. Updated asteroid and comet data can be downloaded free of charge from the SkyMap Pro 11 website, or activate automatic updates from the internet

•SkyMap Pro 11 displays a wide range of different coordinate grids and scale lines showing altitude/azimuth, RA/dec, ecliptic and galactic coordinates

•Display pictures of more than 15,000 astronomical objects from the picture collection supplied with SkyMap Pro 11. Download and display a picture of any object via the internet automatically, or add your own photographs and CCD images to create your own custom picture library.

•Get detailed information on any object known to SkyMap Pro 11 with a simple click and add your own "annotations" to the SkyMap Pro 11 map, including text labels, lines or arrows, eyepiece field of view circles, camera and CCD field of view rectangles

•Display photographic "background images" on the star chart. Either add your own or automatically download one from the internet

•The search facility allows you to quickly find any of the millions of objects in SkyMap Pro 11’s vast databases

•Print your high-quality SkyMap Pro 11 star charts easily on any printer supported by Windows