Sreenshots of AcruSky Planetarium

New version of AcruSky Planetarium uses realistic sky projection.

Easy way to create printable sky maps: select desired region of the sky, open preview window and see how the printed map will look like.

Select desired sky schema: standard (with adjustable athmosphere effect)...

...night mode (red)...

...or printable sky map (black & white)

Use full screen mode for more comfortable obsevations

Check option «Use Sun image from SOHO site», and AcruSky Planetarium will automatically download realtime Sun image and will show it on the sky map.

AcruSky Planetarium shows Moon phases and labels of surface details (maria, craters, rocks and mountains) depend on a selected zoom scale.

AcruSky Planetarium shows Earth umbra and penumbra during Moon eclipses.

Planets are shown with moons, feature details are also labeled.
On the image: Mars, Phobos and Deimos.

AcruSky Planetarium takes into account positions of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Saturn rings inclination and Mars rotation.

AcruSky Planetarium supports catalogue of bright asteroids with ability of online updating.
On the image: Ceres (minor planet).

AcruSky Planetarium supports updatable catalogue of comets.
On the image: comet C/1995 O1 (Hale — Bopp).

AcruSky Planetarium calculates comet's coma diameter, tail length and direction.

Installation package contains NGC+IC catalogue of deep sky objects.
On the image: galactic cluster in Coma Berenices.

Radians of meteors' showers are shown according to drift effect.

AcruSky Planetarium supports TLE data format for artificial satellites.

AcruSky Planetarium supports pluggable star catalogues SAO and Tycho2.

Use your own horizon line while planning observations.

Select your telescope and eyepiece from list and AcruSky Planetarium will show appropriate field of view.

Use easy search tool with filter by object type.

Ruler tool allows to estimate angular diameters of objects and distances between them.

Motion tracks tool allows to find out instances of bodies conjunctions.

Observation planner helps to find out what objects will be accessible for observation tonight.

Ephemeris tool generator allows to calculate object's parameters for any period. You can copy derived data to clipboard or save to file.

Moon calendar helps to plan observations in moonless nights.

Solar Activity Tool shows information about groups and separated sunspots.

Due to Jupiter's Moons tool you can print the chart and use it for planning observations.

Use Events Calendar for predication of astronomical phenomena.

AcruSky Planetarium will remind about further phenomena during startup.

The program supports pluggable catalogue of FITS images.

DSS Images tool allows to download FITS images and shows them on the map.

AcruSky Planetarium supports ASCOM platform.