Excellent for all levels of amateur expertise

Pros: I like everything about this program. As freeware it is comprehensive enough for all but the fussiest of users but if you register it you get access to a lot more star catalogues and hi-res overlay imagery planets and moons within our solar system.

The 3D view is breath taking and a sure fire winner with kids & adults alike, while the planetarium view is very accurate and easily customised. To define accurate I will use this example. One night not only was Jupiter exactly where Winstars said it would be, but the red spot was also in exactly the right place and so also were the 4 moons that Winstars track, upto and including Io's shadow traversing the Jovian landscape. This was all confirmed by me throught my 8" LX200R

It does use a fair amount of resource, but then it does an awful lot with that resource.

I have used numerous freeware & commercial products and for all around usability and functionality, this is the best.

Posted: 05-Feb-2008 10:00:22 PM