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The Encyclopedia Galactica web site

Welcome to the Encyclopedia Galactica home page

Encyclopedia Galactica is a freeware planetarium program that allows the creation of different types of sky maps in which practically any element is customizable. In addition to this basic functionality, it also provides a number of tools such as:

	Calculation of the positions of Jupiter and Saturn satellites.
	Moon calendar and feature locator.
	A solar system orrery.
	An observing list manager.
	Maintain a database of celestial objects images, with direct download from Internet.
	An artificial satellite visibility predictor.
	A facility to store Internet material to view it offline.
	The visibility graph, to check the optimum time for observing an object.
	The visibility predictor, to check the moment in which a given object will traverse a specific portion of the sky.
	... and many more.

Please refer to the links on the left for additional information.

You can see a number of screenshots of Encyclopedia Galactica in action.

New!: Encyclopedia Galactica was reviewed by Jeff Foust for the October 2002 edition of Sky & Telescope. You can see his review here.

This site was last updated on September 30th, 2002.