AstroGrav 1.8

AstroGrav 1.8 is designed with an aim to let users simulate how astronomical objects move and interact under the force of gravity. It features superb interactive 3D graphics which allow you to move around within a many-body astronomical system, while watching how it evolves with the passage of timent with the astronomy software without having to enter your own data. The comprehensive editing facilities allow you to either create your own astronomical systems, or to modify existing ones, and provide you with an almost endless scope for experimescales. AstroGrav is available for both Mac and Windows, comentation, and you can download a fully functional 15 day trial version for evaluation.

Major Features:

1. Display the distance, speed, magnitude, and phase of selected objects.
2. Display the angles between objects.
3. Change the magnification and brightness of the window.
4. Show or hide the na

   Enhancemenu. These give you a choice of four ways of displaying objects instead of just the two.

5. The View / Show / Objects command has been added, allowing you to suppress the display of the objects if you wish. This may be useful if you want to study the changes in orbits without being distracted by flashing objects after each times white, blue become Units
   • The Time units, so that you can now specify different units for the period and the simulation date/time units now includes a Date + Time as Date command.
   • The Date/Time across all types of windows, so that the View / Customize Tool Bar... command now affects all windows rather than just windows of one particular type.
   • A tool bar will no longer 'wrap', but instead displays a >> icon when there are too many tool buttons to display. When clicked on, a popup me functionality as the Edit / Find... command, but is quicker to access.
   • The default set of tool buttons has been expanded and improved.
6. Preferences: Include new preference settings allowing you to specify the positions of tool bars and status bars if you don't like having tool bars at the top of windows and status bars at the bottom of windows.
7. Other Improveme type.
8. Changing the language preference now updates the About and Navigation Guide windows as appropriate.
9. The documents:
   • 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor (G4, G5, or Intel recommended)
   • 50 MB available disk space