Skyglobe
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| developer | Mark A Haney, KlassM Software Inc (Disbanded) |
| operating system | Windows 95 , DOS |
| category | Astronomy program |
| License | Shareware |
| Version 4.0 | |
Skyglobe is an astronomy program to simulate the starry sky including the objects from the Messier catalog , planets , sun and moon . It took into account the precession of the earth's axis (25,750 years). It was very popular among those interested in astronomy. It was created by Mark A. Haney and his company KlassM Software Inc. in Ann Arbor , Michigan offered as shareware. Mark wrote it in 1989 after graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in Computer Science .
The last official version 3.6 was from October 1993 and contained the data of 29,000 stars in the shareware version. Originally developed for systems under DOS, it also ran under Windows 95/98 and for the most part also under Windows NT / 2000. A CD with a larger star database was offered for USD 20 .
On the occasion of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 event , Haney released DOS version 4.0 in July 1994 and Skyglobe for Windows 1.0 on a test basis, which ran under Windows 3.11 . The supplied supplementary program CircumSpace made it possible to make small flights through space, which is close to our solar system. It simulated the vicinity of the 7,700 nearest stars.