Description
Like Google Earth, only with the stars!!
Imagine if there was a version of Google Earth for the entire solar system – and way beyond. Real-time 3D orbits and asteroid paths and high resolution imagery. Actually Celestial Explorer has all that. This phenomenal project takes data gathered by the European Space Agency, including imagery, telemetry and positional data for planets, asteroids and stars, and then maps it in 3D.
Take control of your own “hyperdrive” spacecraft and fly to any part of our amazing universe you wish, at any time in history. Visualize looking out a ship window at a vista of galaxies, stars, nebula, black holes, planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets and spacecraft. Envision the excitement of not only seeing but also hearing your ship’s sounds and many of the environmental sounds present at places you visit.
Fly around in 3D space, in real time, or any time in the past or future. See the clouds and lights of the earth, to right out the galaxy, and can see a other known galaxies and just watch years go by in minutes. Fascinating!
Features:
– Displays the Hipparcos Catalogue (HIP) of almost 120,000 stars.
– Easily orbit stars, planets, moons and other space objects.
– Track space objects (spacecraft, asteroids and comets) as they fly by,
– Travel or fly through nebula and irregular, elliptical and spiral galaxies.
– Over 10,000 galaxies available via free addon packs
– View orbital paths of planets, moons, asteroids, comets,….
– Fly at any speed from 0.001m/s to millions of light years/s
– Set the time to any point in the future or past.
– Simple keyboard controls
– All from the Open Source Community, this keeps getting better
– Based on award winning Celestia project
All on a professionally created CD in factory sealed DVD case.
Ideal for the complete family or astronomy lover
Min Sys Requirements
2+ Ghz
Win 98/2000/ME/XP
256 Mb RAM
Video card + OpenGL Driver
CD Drive
More details available from http://www.idb.net.nz/product/102/
SKU:102
