SkyGazer Screen Shots

The following screen shots provide a sample of SkyGazer's features and interface:

Using colorful animations, SkyGazer illustrates common astronomical concepts. Map the changing cycle of day and night on the Earth's surface. Study how the changing seasons result from the tilt of Earth's axis. Explore the seasonal change in the length of the day at different locations on Earth.

Follow the path of the Moon as its shadow moves across the surface of the Earth during a solar eclipse. View ancient solar eclipses from any location on Earth and preview eclipses that will occur in the coming years.

Follow the phases of the Moon and determine the conditions which produce lunar and solar eclipses. See the moon-like phases of Venus, the retrograde motion of Mars, the bright moons of Jupiter, and the changing appearance of the rings of Saturn. Investigate the nature and motion of comets and asteroids.

Watch the looping path of Mars and see how the Earth and Mars repeat this pattern every few years. See how the axis of the Earth precesses over thousands of years, creating many new "North Stars".

Journey to the edge of the solar system to observe the clockwork motion of the planets.