STAR Atlas:PRO™ features

STAR Atlas:PRO™ is available in 3 levels to suit all levels of amateur astronomers.

Level 1 includes everything you need to explore the night sky in detail.

Level 2 adds telescope control system and support for telescopes equipped with digital setting circles.

Level 3 adds instant deep sky charts to fainter than Magnitude 15 with the Guide Star Catalogue (GSC included). Adds Internet technology that automatically fetches and displays Astronomical Images from the Palomar Digitized Sky Survey. Extract data on-line from the new Guide Star Catalogue 2 (GSC2) for celestial charts to fainter than Magnitude 19.5.
 



STAR Atlas:PRO™
StarLITE™ Edition
[Level 1]

all the features you need to explore
the Night Sky in detail.

  • Easy to use Planetarium and Sky Atlas with all the features you need to easily locate, find and learn about celestial objects in the Night Sky.

  • Spectacularly detailed star charts, displayed in the true colours of stars, provide stunning views of the night sky complete with Planets, Comets and countless other celestial objects, to keep you looking an entire life-time!

  • Explore the night sky with the STAR Atlas:PRO™ Virtual Sky interface to the Palomar Digitized Sky Survey (DSS).

  • Planet positions and extensive Planetary data include the Planet's apparent diameter, phase, magnitude, rise and set times, distance and even the Planet's atmospheric composition.

  • Follow Comets as they move through the Sky and print tabular reports.

  • Display the best time to observe Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and displays the positions of Jupiter's Galilean Moons in real-time as they orbit Jupiter.

  • Advanced Astronomical Database Manager provides you with un-paralleled ease and power when it comes to finding the objects your looking for.

  • A powerful List Generator provides you with a tool for easily creating and exporting Lists of Astronomical Objects.

  • Under the Stars and don't know where to look next? The integrated Observation Planner collates and plans your observations in advance, saving precious time and keeping you organized when it comes to observing under the stars.

  • A powerful database with more than 300 Megabytes of popular and historical astronomical catalogues that you may browse, list and search.

  • Over 130,000 Deep Sky objects.

  • Over 1.6 Million Stars with Charts to Magnitude 11.

  • Browse, List, Sort and Examine individual astronomical catalogues, sort Comets so that the brightest Comets appear at the top of the list.

  • Print tabular tables of Planet and Comet positions.

  • Attach your own images to objects.

  • Precision Star colors.

  • Print Charts to your printer or an image file.

  • Produce publication quality charts in Postscript and PDF format for high-resolution chart printing.

  • Annotate charts with your own comments.

  • Dozens of selectable chart options permit you to highly customize the way charts appear.

  • Create your own Telescope and Eyepiece Profiles for projecting your Eyepiece field of views onto a chart.

  • Create your own Telescope and CCD Camera profiles for projecting a CCD camera's field of view onto a chart.

  • Add your own objects.

  • Star charts to Magnitude 11.5.

  • Runs on Windows™ XP, 2000, ME, NT, 98 and 95.

Standard Edition

 STAR Atlas:PRO™
Standard Edition
 [Level 2]

with Telescope Control.

  • includes all features in
    Level I
    plus...
     

  • This edition of STAR Atlas:PRO™ includes a complete Telescope Control System and support for telescopes equipped with Digital Setting Circles (DSC).

  • Slew your telescope to any celestial object, quickly and efficiently.

  • Click on any celestial object, choose Slew, and your telescope automatically moves to point at that object.

  • Supports the Argo Navis™ Digital Telescope Computer (ngcSuperMax™) Digital Telescope Computer.

  • Supports many makes and models of telescopes. In-built drivers for dozens of telescopes including:

  • Astro-Physics GTO.

  • Argo Navis™ (NGC-superMax™).

  • Celestron NexStar™ 5i/8i.

  • Celestron NexStar 8/9.25/11 GPS.

  • Celestron CGE Series.

  • Celestron NexStar 5/8.

  • Celestron GT Models 60/80/114/4/130 (original series & current series).

  • FS2 telescope drive unit.

  • Meade Telescopes with Autostar™ I and/or Autostar II and/or LX200 command set.

  • Meade LX200 GPS.

  • Meade LX200 GPS 16-inch.

  • Meade LX200.

  • Meade LX200 16-inch.

  • Meade LX90.

  • Meade LXD models.

  • Meade ETX models.

  • Astro-Physics GTO mount.

  • Vixen Sky Sensor 2000.

  • Sky Commander Digital Setting Circles (DSC).

  • Losmandy Digital Setting Circles.

  • STAR Atlas:PRO™ also supports the freely available ASCOM platform of telescope drivers. ASCOM includes additional telescope drivers like ACL Based Telescopes (Comsoft PC-TCS, Optical Guidance, DFM, and other research grade instruments), ACP Astronomer's Control Panel telescope hub, AstroOptik Research Telescopes, Astro-Physics, and the Losmandy Gemini Controller.

Advanced Edition

STAR Atlas:PRO™
Advanced Edition
[Level 3]

with Telescope Control,
Charts to fainter than 15th Magnitude.
Guide Star Catalogue.

Advanced Internet Features,

Area charts to ultra-faint Magnitude 21.

  • includes all features in
    Level I & Level II
    plus...
     

  • When your looking beyond the brightest astronomical objects, STAR Atlas:PRO™ Advanced Edition has power to boast with capabilities that present you with some of the faintest astronomical charts ever made so easily available.

  • Advanced Virtual Sky interface to Palomar Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) just point and click and watch the Image appear after it is automatically downloaded for you.

  • Features advanced Internet capabilities for fully automatic retrieval of Palomar Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) Images, Comet Orbital Elements, and access to the giant astronomical catalogues integrate data for the GSC2 and A2.0 catalogues.

  • Features a ready to go database of more than 15 million stars and 3 million other objects, instantly chart the entire sky to fainter than 15th Magnitude, exceeding the limits of most amateur telescopes.

  • an extensive astronomical database consists of more than 1,500 Megabytes of celestial objects, astrophysical data and information.

  • includes the revised GSC-ACT version of The Guide Star Catalogue for instant charts beyond 15th Magnitude.

  • When you require even fainter charting capabilities, this edition of STAR Atlas:PRO Advanced can access  the  Guide Star Catalogue 2 (GSC2.2), a database of nearly 500 million celestial objects available on the Internet. This technology permits STAR Atlas:PRO to ting charts to be displayed that identify celestial objects right down to the feeble glimmer of 19th Magnitude.

  • Access is also provided to the 526 million star A2.0 catalogue produced by the US Naval Observatory, permitting STAR Atlas:PRO to draw area star charts to 21st Magnitude.

  • also see STAR Atlas:PRO Advanced and the GSC.

  • also see Charts to Mag. 19.5 with the GSC 2.
     

Argo Navis is a trademark of Wildcard Innovations. NGC-superMAX is a trademark of JIMS Mobile Inc. Meade and Autostar are trademarks of Meade Corporation. NexStar is a trademark of Celestron.