aciqra online with Winfy

We have hosted the application aciqra in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about aciqra:

Aciqra is a virtual planetarium and sky mapping program which tracks celestial bodies including planets, deep sky objects and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past. It includes the 2.5 million stars of the Tycho-2 catalog supplemented by data of 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalog, 13,000 deep space objects from the NGC and IC catalogs and a large number of asteroids and comets from the Minor Planet Center. The program is platform-independent and can be made to work on most modern computers that support OpenGL.

Features:

• Tycho-2 star catalog w/ 2.5 million stars
• Full NGC and IC catalogs w/ 13000 deep space objects
• Interface designed for efficiency
• Correction for atmospheric refraction
• Night vision mode -- turns display red for viewing at night
• Correction for nutation and precession
• Calculate proper motions for stars
• Selecting objects to show details
• Constellation boundaries
• Option to save a view as an image
• Earth's umbra and penumbra for lunar eclipse simulations
• Comets and asteroids tracking
• Semi-realistic comet rendering with dust and ion tails

Audience: Advanced End Users, Science/Research.
User interface: GLUT, OpenGL.

Database Environment: SQLite.

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