Free distant planets software for mac

Planets is a free Yahoo! widget that lets you see the whole solar system on your desktop, complete with the earths moon.

System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Added more planets, changed the engine to load an XML file (so now you can modify it), and improved performance.

ConverTable Planets is designed to answer that age-old question, "if a widget weighs 34 stones on Earth, just how many troy ounces would that widget weigh on Mars?" In doing so, ConverTable Planets could be used to teach about unit conversions and gravity.
Main features:
- Find out how much you would weigh on the Moon, Mars, and 24 other places in the solar system.
- View the planets and included moons in their true relative sizes!
- Learn how many Venusian (or Martian, Saturnian, etc.) years old you are!
- Planets included (the whole solar system, of course!): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
- Moons included: Earths Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Miranda, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Triton, and Charon.
- Several mass and weight units are available: kilograms, pounds, grams, milligrams, stones, troy ounces, slugs, newtons, metric tons, and metric carats.
- Brief discussion of the common "mass or weight" language confusion, and what exactly is a "year."
- French localized version available.
Enhancements:
- added "Year Conversions" function to compare year (orbital period) lengths on the planets.
- improved some planet and moon descriptions
- added planet and moon datasets which appear in the "Year Conversions" section
- changed to a primarily single-window interface.

Requirements:
System 7.0 or later.

Star Conquest is a turn-based strategic wargame. It may be played as a single player, multi-player or network game. Up to ten players can play in a game, accompanied by up to ten computer controlled players.
Your objective is to guide your species in its expansion to all corners of the known Universe. You start with two or more populated Planets and a small number of Star Ships. Using these Star Ships you have to explore and colonise other Star Systems.
Soon you will encounter other species. Will you choose to conquer all, or perhaps fight as part of an alliance. Each year you can decide what strategy to follow, moving Star Ships or Fleets to attack or defend, colonising Planets and exploring Star Systems. Once every player has issued his or her commands, the year ends and the results are calculated. The game continues until all players are eliminated and only a single player or alliance remains.
Being a strategic wargame, Star Conquest is relatively complex and it may take several weeks before you fully appreciate its complexity and subtly of game play. If you are looking for a fast paced action game this isnt it!
If you play Star Conquest on a single computer then each Player takes it in turn to issue their orders. If you play a network game of Star Conquest each Player takes their turn simultaneously.
Enhancements:
- This is largely untested and released to resolve a crashing issue.

Starry Night is a Yahoo! astronomy Widget that will let you see the sky (planets, constellations) for any location on Earth.

Main features:
- Set your location by ZIP/postal code or by latitude and longitude, and the Widget flips to show a view of the current sky.
- With a touch of a button, see the sky from all directions.
- Its easy to customize your view. Choose to show constellations, the horizon, the ecliptic line, and labels for the celestial sights above.
- The Widget refreshes your sky image every few minutes so you are always looking at something new.

System requirements:
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Enhancements
- added date and time to the status bar
- fixed potential security problem