: Most commands are keyboard-based. By default, available keys are listed on the screen for easy reference.
You can view the sky in real-time or animate time changes over centuries or millennia to observe celestial precession. Search & Center:
Long before sophisticated planetarium suites like Stellarium or Starry Night occupied our hard drives, there was . Originally developed by Mark A. Haney in the late 1980s and early 90s, SkyGlobe was a marvel of efficient programming. It fit a comprehensive database of stars, planets, and Messier objects into a tiny package, running smoothly on DOS and early Windows machines.
At roughly 300–700 KB, it was designed to be the fastest program of its kind.
