This feature can be turned off. Displays the times of astronomical, nautical, and civil dawn and dusk. Stars Displays the positions of 8,403 stars to magnitude 6.5. The shareware version only displays 1,629 stars to magnitude 5.0. Allows you to adjust the magnitude limit of stars in the sky display.
Displays stars in white and several shades of gray, or in colors based on their spectral types.
Displays detailed information about any star in the display when you click on it with the right mouse button. This information includes the star's proper name, Bayer and Flamsteed designations, equatorial and horizontal coordinates, distance, magnitude, constellation, rising, transit, and setting times, spectral type, and luminosity class. Deep sky objects Displays 99 of the easiest to see deep sky objects. The shareware version only includes 36 deep sky objects. Deep sky objects include galaxies, globular clusters, planetary nebulae, and open clusters.