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 Skyglobe 3.6 (DOS) screenshot. | |
| Developer(s) | Mark A. Haney |
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| Operating system | MS-DOS |
| Type | Planetarium |
| License | Shareware |
Skyglobe is an astronomy program for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows first developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s and sold as Shareware.[1] It plots the positions of stars, Messier objects, planets, sun and moon.[2][3]
Skyglobe was designed by Mark A. Haney and his company KlassM Software Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and first released in 1989, after Mark graduated in computer science from Michigan State University. Use of Skyglobe is still suggested to students at Villanova University.[4]
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 Skyglobe for Windows screenshot. | |
| Developer(s) | Mark A. Haney |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | Planetarium |
| License | Freeware[dubious ] |
Registered users of the MS-DOS version received additional software, such as a Skyglobe screensaver, and Crystal Sphere, an application simulating the 3,800 stars nearest the solar system. Crystal Sphere may have been the progenitor of CircumSpace, KlassM Software's subsequent stellar neighborhood simulator, displaying the nearest 7,780 stars.[5]
At least two versions of Skyglobe were later released for Microsoft Windows, being variously listed as versions 1.0, 2.0, 2.02 and 4.0, as well as other possible iterations between. Skyglobe for Windows (also known as SG4WIN) is freely available online.
- ^ Skyglobe download page on archive.org
- ^ DuHamel, Bob (April 1993). "Product Review: Skyglobe, a fast but powerful computerized star chart". Amateur Skywatch. Vol. 1, no. 1.
- ^ "SETI League Software Review: Skyglobe". (published by The SETI League)
- ^ Villanova University Skyglobe page
- ^ CircumSpace 1.0