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About The Sky 6 Professional Edition - Astronomy Software

TheSky Professional Edition is designed for the advanced or professional astronomer. The Professional Edition contains the greatest number of features, largest databases and most pictures.

It has all the basic features described in the student version (See our SKU ATSWSWSE)
In addition this version has these features
• Native Telescope Control
• Display/Import Minor Planets
• Display/Import Extended Minor Planets (display all known minor planets simultaneously
• Display Satellites
• Data Wizard
• Field of View Indicators
• Integration with TPoint for Windows
• Image Manager
• Multiple Mapping Projections
• One hundred thousand, 1.7 arcsecond per pixel, in-place PGC images
• High-Resolution Moon photographs (100 meter resolution)
• UCAC2 Stellar Catalog
• USNOB Subset Stellar Catalog (fills out UCAC2)
• Mosaic
• Extensive scripting object model
• Integration with CCDSoft's Auto-Astrometry
• Integration with AutomaDome for complete, closed-loop, automated dome control
• Includes Orchestrate Scripting Software
• Image Link
• Native support for the raw, USNO B1.0, 80 gigabyte catalog (catalog not included)
• Integration with CCDSoft's CCD Camera Control
• Integration with CCDSoft's Digitized Sky Survey support
• 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 support.
• Telescope Application Programming Interface (TeleAPI) allowing third party-custom telescope support

TheSky version 6 requires Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP or later.

TheSky6 is best enjoyed when run on later model computers (1 GHz and faster processors with 256 MB or more RAM) running modern operating systems (Windows XP) and faster graphics cards.
Note that TheSky6 will run on older model, slower computers running Windows 98 or later, it will just slower than on a faster computer. (That is, there are no computer processor-specific restrictions.)