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Celestial Maps 8.0 is an astronomical software that produces accurate maps of the sky in five types of projections. It has been written in Borland Delphi 4 for Windows on 32 bits.
The software is very user friendly, a main menu being visible at any time on the top bar under the application title. Beside the application's main form, other 23 forms set the various functions of the program.
All the forms are easily accessible using the mouse or the keyboard. This can be done in three possible ways:
- Point and click to the main menu's items;
- Using shortcut key combinations written nearby each menu item;
- Using "F" hot keys (for the main functions of the program).
Celestial Maps v.8.0 runs 10 astronomical catalogues, organised in two main database:
The small database (about 25,000 stars up to mag 7.5 and the Messier catalogue);
The large database, including the following professional catalogues:
- SAO J2000 (about 250,000 stars up to about mag 10);
- PPM (4 catalogues of 500,000 stars up to about mag 11);
- Tycho-2 (2 catalogues of 2,500,000 stars up to about mag 12.5);
- GSC 1.1 (18,000,000 stars and nonstellars up to about mag 15.5);
- NGC 2000 (NGC and IC catalogues of 13,000 objects up to mag 17).
All these catalogues add together about 22 millions of objects up to the maximum mag 17.
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