Aciqra Portable was specially designed as an Open Source desktop planetarium. The program is able to simulate the sky as seen from anywhere on the planet with tracking capability for 120,000 stars, all 8 planets, a custom list of comets, the sun and moon, deep sky objects and the 88 constellations.
Aciqra Portable is an easy-to-use, useful and entertaining home planetarium.
By default, it also comes with several widgets including a planetary data grapher, eclipse predicter, solar system overview as well as a planetary location list.
What's New in This Release:
· Streamlined installation procedure
· Allow selection of a planet by clicking anywhere on its surface
· Removed angle indicator to reduce clutter
· Semi-realistic rendering of comets
· Reduced size of glow when "Show Planets as Starlike" is disabled
· Dimmed menus & selection indicator to be less intrusive
· Button to toggle between windowed and full screen modes
· Option to show the path of selected objects
· Antialiasing on round objects
· Show alternative names and designations for selected objects
· Grid shows several different levels of detail based on field of view
· Optimized precession calculations
· Improved readability of text with partially transparent background