TheSky6 Features (Student Edition, Serious Astronomer Edition and Professional Edition)

TheSky6 is available in three different Editions: Professional Edition, Serious Astronomer Edition and Student Edition. All Editions include the set of standard features. The Professional Edition and Serious Astronomer Edition include additional functionality listed in the table below.

 

Professional Edition ($279) Buy Now!

 

TheSky6 Professional Edition is designed for the most advanced or professional astronomer. The Professional Edition contains the greatest number of features, largest databases and most pictures. See the table below for a list of additional features in this Edition.

 

Serious Astronomer Edition ($129) Buy Now!

 

TheSky6 Serious Astronomer Edition is targeted for the amateur or hobbyist astronomer. It includes native telescope control for virtually all commercial telescopes and more. See the table below for a list of additional features in this Edition.

 

Student Edition ($49) Buy Now!

 

TheSky6 Student Edition is for the budding or student astronomer. It is easy to use, yet contains a powerful set of features to help learn about the fascinating field of astronomy.

 

The following table outlines the features that are included in each Edition. 

 

Feature Edition
 Student Serious Astronomer Professional

Standard Features

 

Native Telescope Control (no third-party drivers required)

 

 

Display/Import Extended Minor Planets or Asteroids (that is, display all known minor planets simultaneously)

 

 

Import/Create Sky Databases (SDBs) from text-based astronomical data

 

Display Satellites/Updated from the Web

 

 

Data Wizard™ for generating observing lists

 

  

Field of View Indicators™

 

 

Integration with TPoint for Windows™

 

(TPoint sold separately)

 

 

Image Manager™ for placing photos on the Virtual Sky

 

 

Multiple Mapping Projections (including Mercator, Gnonomic, Orthographic, Stereographic, Azimuthal Equal-Area and Azimuthal Equal-Distance)

 

 

Maximum field of view of 360° (Mercator projection only)

 

 

Minimum field of view of 30 arcseconds

 

 

Retrieve and overlay images from the Digitized Sky Survey using RealSkyView

 

 

Export and Save Star Charts in Windows Metafile file format (that is, save vector-based star charts)

 

 

Customize the format of printed star charts, including Standard, Feature Object, AAVSO format and more.

 

 

One hundred thousand, 1.7 arcsecond per pixel, in-place PGC images

 

 

 

High-Resolution Moon photographs (100 m resolution)

 

    

UCAC2 Stellar Catalog 

 

    

USNOB Subset Stellar Catalog (fills out UCAC2)

 

    

Mosaic Feature

 

 

 

Extensive scripting object model

 

 

 

Integration with CCDSoft's Insert World Coordinate System/AutoAstrometry

 

(CCDSoft sold separately)

 

    

Integration with AutomaDome for closed-loop, automated dome control

 

(AutomaDome sold separately)

 

    

Orchestrate Scripting Software

 

 

 

DVD media format

 

    

Image Link™ image overlay and pattern recognition

 

    

Native support for the 11 CD-ROM USNO stellar database (488 million stars.

 

(Note: This catalog is not included.)

 

 

 

 

Native support for the USNO B1.0, 80 GB stellar catalog

 

(Note: This catalog is not included.)

 

 

 

Integration with CCDSoft's CCD Camera Control

 

(CCDSoft sold separately)

 

    

Integration with CCDSoft's Digitized Sky Survey support

 

(CCDSoft sold separately)

 

    

Export Star Chart Layers

 

 

 

Internet Telescope support for accessing telescopes over the Internet, as part of the Internet Astronomy Software.

 

    

Astronomy Command Language (ACL) support.

 

    

Paramount ME Robotic Telescope System support.

 

    

Telescope Application Programming Interface (TeleAPI) allowing third party-custom telescope support