Description:
This is the latest release of our FREE open source astronomical ephemeris.
AI (Astro Info) provides comprehensive data on objects in our solar system as well as catalogues of all types of interstellar objects.
This makes AI an invaluable tool for planning and observing with handy features such as showing objects currently above the horizon.
This release includes:
- Improved colour graphics
- Object details including rise/transit/set, phase, distance, magnitude and position in multiple coordinate systems
- Graphically show phase of our moon and solar system planets using real images or drawings (see screen shot above)
- Major overhaul of the user interface
- Sky map with ability to zoom and change limiting magnitude
- F-A-S-T and accurate maths using combination of virtual floating point library and Meeus calculations
- Change viewing date and time from any form
- Show time as julian date and sidereal time
- Rise/set time for all planets in our solar system in one form
- Only 78KB of memory without optional catalogues
- Your choice of catalogues containing thousands of objects including:
- Messier
- Caldwell
- Bennett
- Yale
- SAA 100 (best 100 non Messier objects from sci.astro.amateur newsgroup)
- Revised NGC/IC catalogue - this is the most accurate version of this catalogue available! Coming in V3
- Optional night mode (red) for colour devices
Download german and russian versions of AI at our web site http://astroinfo.sf.net
Update Description:
2003-11-17:
- Minor update to fix crashing bug on PalmOS 5 and typo in rise/set times for stars.
Reviews:
***** [Aug 17, 2006] by pulsarsl@gmail.com
Great software! No troubles with it! Treo 650.
***** [Nov 4, 2003] by KEITH PRATT
Excellent small-footprint astronomical software! Very intuitive, and also handy at the telescope.
***** [Dec 30, 2002] by pem
I installed this on my Tungsten T (PalmOS v5.0) and pressed the "target" icon in the title bar, and got the "Our Solar System" screen. Then the Palm froze completely, couldn't bring up a menu, go anywhere else in the AI application, or to any other application. Had to reset the device. :-(
***** [Dec 5, 2002] by Osama Amin
It's very good and I hope next version it will be better.
***** [Sep 14, 2002] by CindyC
Excellent!
***** [Jul 19, 2002] by Materne Linder
Great, I love it, "essayer c'est l'adopter" nice work, thanks for it.
***** [Apr 15, 2002] by John M. Wildenthal
Amazingly good. My only wish is that it would default to North at the top of the screen.
**** [Mar 1, 2002] by Glenn
Downloaded, unzipped, loaded and installed without a problem. Functions flawlessly. Lots of readily available information. Excellent single point reference for the new astronomer.
**** [Jan 25, 2002] by William R. Winfree, Jr.
ASTRO and LICENSE DOC files missing data in v2.5. Will not HotSync to Prism. Got files from v2.4.
* [Jan 23, 2002] by Pierre
I had to do a hard reset of Palm IIIxe after I tried to uninstall the program within Launcher III.
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