INTUITIVE, SIMPLE, POWERFUL
An intuitive and clutter free graphical interface has you up and going in minutes with a full-screen planetarium, precision deep sky charts, telescope control, observation planning and much more.

PACKED WITH USEFUL FEATURES
Astronomy software has never been so easy to use, in no time at all you'll locate, identify and learn about thousands of celestial objects in your night skies.

STAR Atlas:PRO™ includes many other features too, like powerful search capabilities that allow you to find particular celestial objects, an inbuilt observation planner, a superb interface to the on-line Digitized Sky Survey images, along with a host of other features that save you time and keep you organised under the stars.

Popular celestial objects like the Andromeda Galaxy, the Great Nebula in Orion, the Black-eye Galaxy, the Helix Nebula, the Ring Nebula, and Messier objects along with thousands more are all now at your fingertips.

EXCEPTIONAL STAR CHARTS
Spectacular charting graphics with dozens of optional settings allow you to customise the way your charts appear.

Choose colour schemes to suit indoors or outdoors and chart printing or create your own chart colour combinations. Display true star colours, selectable star sizes, eyepiece and camera field of views, add text to charts, and dozens more features.

TELESCOPE CONTROL AND DSC SUPPORT
Get ready to observe a lot of deep sky objects in no time at all !

A sophisticated telescope control system for robotic telescopes provides superior telescope control capabilities for Meade, Celestron and dozens of other popular telescopes. Dobsonian and other telescopes equipped with digital setting circles (DSC) are fully supported too.

DIGITIZED SKY SURVEY IMAGES
Click anywhere in the sky, sit back, and watch a digital image appear on your screen for the area of the sky or celestial object you selected.

Store the image into STAR Atlas:PRO™ where it can be charted like other celestial objects and re-displayed with a click. This is a great way to see what celestial objects look like before deciding to observe them. A truly amazing tool !

POWERFUL SEARCH FEATURES
The inbuilt astronomical database manager provides you with easy access to dozens of different databases of celestial objects, each that you may browse, list, examine and search to find exactly what your looking for.

Enter Saturn, Messier 64 or something peculiar as ESO350-40B and STAR Atlas:PRO easily locates that object for you.

MEGA-SIZED ASTRONOMICAL DATABASE
STAR Atlas:PRO™ is packed with more than 300 Megabytes of astronomical data and over 1,500 Megabytes in the Advanced Edition CD-ROMs.

Astronomical databases include Abell Galaxy Clusters, Arp Peculiar Galaxies, Barnard’s Dark Objects, Caldwell Catalogue, Milky Way Globular Star Clusters, Hickson Compact Galaxy Groups, Lynd's Bright and Dark nebulae, PGC Galaxy catalogue, Messier objects, NGC and IC catalogue, Quasars, Active Galaxies, Star Clusters, Strasbourg-ESO Planetary Nebulae, Supernovae Remnants and more!

OBSERVATION PLANNER
STAR Atlas:PRO's integrated Observation Planner collates and plans your observations in advance, saving precious time and keeping you organized, when it comes to observing under the night sky.

Create your own list of celestial objects that you would like to observe and when you are ready to observe, the Observation Planner lists which of your "target" objects are currently visible in the night sky.

AMAZING VIEWS OF THE NIGHT SKY


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