Welcome to the Encyclopedia Galactica home page
Encyclopedia Galactica is a freeware planetarium program that allows the creation of different types of sky maps in which practically any element is customizable. In addition to this basic functionality, it also provides a number of tools such as:
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Calculation of the positions of Jupiter and Saturn satellites. |
| Moon calendar and feature locator. |
| A solar system orrery. |
| An observing list manager. |
| Maintain a database of celestial objects images, with direct download from Internet. |
| An artificial satellite visibility predictor. |
| A facility to store Internet material to view it offline. |
| The visibility graph, to check the optimum time for observing an object. |
| The visibility predictor, to check the moment in which a given object will traverse a specific portion of the sky. |
| ... and many more. |
Please refer to the links on the left for additional information.
You can see a number of screenshots of Encyclopedia Galactica in action.
Encyclopedia Galactica was reviewed by Jeff Foust for the October 2002 edition of Sky & Telescope. You can see his review here.
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This site was last updated on August 24th, 2005.