The program's evolution has always been primarily guided by feedback from existing users of the program, thus making it the ideal tool for use by the practical amateur astronomer. CD-ROM drive required for installation, and recommended for normal operation. Display more than 15 million stars as faint as magnitude 15. Display more than 200,000 deep sky objects - star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and so on. Display the positions of the Sun, Moon, and major planets.
Positions have an accuracy of a small fraction of an arc second.
Display the positions of all known asteroids and comets. Updated asteroid and comet catalogs can be downloaded free of charge from this web site. It is very easy to associate your own photograph with any object on the map, thus building up a library of astronomical pictures closely linked to SkyMap Pro. Print high-quality star charts on any printer supported by Windows. Detailed information can be displayed about any object known to SkyMap Pro, either by clicking the object on the map with the mouse, or locating it using the search facility.