AstroInfo is a full-featured sky chart / planetarium application for amateur astronomers - or just for people who want to check the sunset time or see where Jupiter is.
· Plot planets, the sun, the moon, stars (over 860,000 stars included, with 99% complete coverage up to magnitude 11), deep sky objects (includes Messier, NGC, IC, Bennett, Caldwell, Collinder and sci.astro.amateur catalogs) and constellations.
· Zoom in and out, and move around.
· Real-time or accelerated display for the present time, or a past or future time.
· Rise, set and transit times for sun, moon, planets, stars and deep sky objects.
· Lunar phase.
· Red on black night mode.
· Measure angular distance between objects.
· Draw Telrad / eyepiece field-of-view circles.
· RA/Dec/Alt/Az data for all objects.
· Customize colors (e.g., draw stars in white and Messier objects in red).
· Web lookup of deep sky objects (on devices with Blazer mobile browser).
· ARM optimized for newer devices.
· Support Hi-Res+ Palm devices.
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Supported operating systems:
Palm OS 4.x, Palm OS 5.x
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