For more than fifteen years, Carina Software has been offering full-featured planetarium software used by amateur and professional astronomers, casual backyard stargazers, and teachers in college and high school classrooms.

We are now shipping Voyager 4, release 4.1.0, for Mac OS X and Windows. Voyager 4 represents the biggest leap foward in our astronomy software line since it was first introduced more than 15 years ago.

A free demo version of Voyager 4 is available for download.

After months in development, we have updated and released our popular educational program SkyGazer 4, for Mac OS X and Windows. SkyGazer 4 designed for classroom instruction and for those new to astronomy.

And after years of design and development, we are introducing new larger models of our original line of telescope mounts.

Voyager 4, release 4.1.0, is now available for Mac OS X and Windows. The Mac OS X version of Voyager 4 is a Universal Binary application, and will run natively on both Intel and PowerPC Macintosh computers. The Windows version supports Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. Both versions feature a completely rewritten graphics and computational engine able to reproduce astronomical phenomena over a million-year timespan.

Voyager 4's object database includes every known planet, moon, asteroid, comet in the solar system; and gigabytes of stars, star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies from the latest professional astronomical catalogs. It can display the sky with unprecedented realism and accuracy.

Voyager 4 includes our SkyPilot telescope control interface, and can drive most commercially-available computer controllable telescopes, such as the Celestron NexStar GPS and Meade LX-200 GPS.

SkyGazer 4, the educational version of Voyager 4, is an exciting introduction to the fascinating world of astronomy. Designed for the novice, SkyGazer 4 is the ideal companion for the backyard astronomer who is exploring the wonders of the night sky for the first time.

You can download an unregistered - but otherwise fully functional - version of SkyGazer 4 from our website, or order a copy from us, shipped to you on CD-ROM.

We are pleased to announce that publisher Pearson Addison-Wesley has selected SkyGazer 4 to be included with its college astronomy textbooks.

SkyGazer 4 is a celestial adventure for all ages.

SkyGazer 4, release 4.0.7, is now available for Mac OS X and Windows. As with Voyager 4, the Mac OS X version of SkyGazer 4 is a Universal Binary application, while the Windows version supports Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. SkyGazer 4 features Voyager 4's advanced graphics and computational engine, but contain a smaller selection of data. That selection includes only the objects which are visible to the naked eye, through binoculars, or with a small telescope.

SkyGazer 4 presents a streamlined and simplified user interface which uses less technical terminology than Voyager 4. It includes interactive 3D demonstrations of phenomena like eclipses, precession, the seasons, and the motions of the planets. It also includes an illustrated guide to basic astronomical concepts, the solar system, and the constellations.

For users of Mac OS 8-9 and Windows 95/98/ME, the older versions of our products, Voyager III and Voyager III SkyGazer, are still available for purchase. Click the links in the table of contents at left for more information.

And last but not least - our original line of telescope mounts has been expanded to include the MI-500, the MI-750, and MI-1000. Originally manufactured between 1982 and 1992, this mount family is now available in German equatorial and equatorial fork configurations.

These new mountings are intended primarily for permanent installation, and they provide the ultimate in precision, performance, and stability.


Carina Software provides quality software for sky simulation and telescope control. For more information on these products, contact us at:

Carina Software
865 Ackerman Drive
Danville, CA 94526

e-mail: information@carinasoft.com
Phone: +1 (925) 838-0695

Fax: +1 (925) 838-0535



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