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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- The complete Hipparcos and Tycho-2 stellar catalogues and the Hubble Guide Star catalogue 2
- View over 100 Deep Sky Objects from the Caldwell 2002 catalogue
- Updated catalogue of 50,000 asteroids from the Bowel Database
- The latest high resolution maps of planets and moons obtained by the latest space missions
- Quick set-up of the sky view with newly integrated Open GL technologies
- Use the high precision Sky Diary to plan your night's observations
- Track thousands of satellites, asteroids and comets
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Red Shift 5 is the latest version of this standard-setting astronomy program and comes on a single CD that includes 20 million stars, 70,000 deep-sky objects, 50,000 asteroids and more than 1,500 comets.
As a nod to the wealth of information inside, Red Shift 5 usefully starts with a video tutorial, stepping you through some of the program's main features. It's time well spent, and you'll not only learn how to move through the known universe using your mouse, but also how to travel through time to view the stars, planets and galaxies from any point on Earth (or indeed in the Solar System) from 4173 BC to 9999 AD. In this way, for example, you can have Red Shift 5 display a detailed animation of what the Earth looks like as seen from the Cassini-Huygens space craft, currently en route to Saturn and Titan. It's all rather extraordinary.
It's up to date too. The new version incorporates objects discovered in 2003, and you can integrate fresh data as it's collated via your Internet connection using the Live Update feature. Beginners will enjoy the six guided tours (including a Solar eclipse and sunrise on Mercury), which explain basic Red Shift 5 concepts, while those already familiar with the program can explore the updated databases--particularly the newly added Hubble Star Catalogue 2. Add to that multiple windows that let you watch phenomena from different viewpoints, the "sky diary" that plots upcoming events (you can record these and play them back later), a huge image database, and filters that let you define the types of objects Red Shift 5 displays and for once, the publisher's description "the ultimate Planetarium software" isn't hyperbole.
Red Shift 5 isn't just about sitting in front of your PC, however. The purpose of being able to map where stellar objects will be next week or next year is that you'll know when they'll be most visible in the sky. By all means use the program on its own as a way of understanding how the universe works, but it's best accompanied by a real telescope pointing at the night sky. Red Shift 5 is simply a sensational product. --Rob Beattie
Manufacturer's Description
Imagine a new RedShift 5 experience, created with state-of-the-art technology and expanded functions to extend your view into space. Would you like to ride on a comet? Gaze at Jupiter as you orbit on one of its moons? Examine Mars' surface in detail? What about taking in the view of Earth from Venus? Maybe you long to see beyond our galaxy into deep space. RedShift 5 contains everything that both the amateur and experienced astronomy enthusiast needs to explore the heavens.Calculates the positions and simulates the movements of 20 million stars, planets, and Deep Sky objects. Provides top quality information and high-resolution images on planets, moons, galaxies and much more. Travel through time to observe the skies from any vantage point on Earth or in our solar system from 4173BC to 9999 AD. Use the movie recorder to capture your voyages in space. Guided Tours illustrate fascinating aspects of astronomy/ Tomorrow's space discoveries can be imported and integrated into the program. The RedShift 5 database allows the complete integration of celestial objects and imported information from the Internet.
Easy to use, powerful software to turn your desktop into the ultimate planetarium. Astronomical Record Breakers and Photo Gallery with spectacular images that take into account the latest discoveries.
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56 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Poor Replacement,
By J Hendry (Northumberland ; United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: RedShift 5 (CD-ROM)
I have used RedShift 4 with great success teaching GCSE and 'A' level Astronomy for a number years. Sad to say this is a very poor replacement. It has no disc 2 with the excellent Lectures simulations; not only that but the old disc 2 will not run. If you want a planetarium disc it might be satisfactory, as an upgrade it is a great disappointment. Keep using RedShift 4.
25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Your own superb planetarium – Redshift 5,
By Ulysses (Warwickshire UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: RedShift 5 (CD-ROM)
These days, it is difficult to keep up with other keen amateur astronomers without resorting to the Web, some discussion groups and planetarium software. One of the most successful and versatile software programmes available is Redshift and at a price of less than £30 it is amazing value.Redshift was first launched 11 years ago and has been developed over the years into the current Version 5 which is a very versatile and stylish and well organised on screen: the overall impression it conveys bears comparison with Encarta, for example. It is, above all, focused on being a planetarium programme to enable users to study aspects of visual astronomy and it is invaluable for learning about the heavens and for planning and carrying out observing sessions. There are orrery views and guided tours and tutorials and other aids for beginners. The scope of Redshift is mind-boggling – it covers 20 million stars, 100 moons, 50,000 minor planets, 1500 comets, … and provides access to the Hipparchus, Hubble and Tycho2 catalogues, amongst others. It can also be updated online, although it remains to be seen how much after-sales support can be provided by the software house, given the low price of the product The great thing about planetarium programmes, such as Redshift, is that you can set them up so that you view the sky, or objects from wherever in space you want to site your mind’s eye. Thus you can look at Saturn’s rings from Saturn or the Solar sustem from Vega or Andromeda, …. More typically you set up the software for the location of your back garden, including altitude, and pan around the sky in a virtually limitless choice of space and time; zooming into great detail where required. From my point of view, now Version 5 of Redshift is available it is an excellent programme. I like the way in which it has been enhanced to make observing sessions much more productive. The sky diary warns you of upcoming events such as meteor showers, eclipses, etc and you can access charts which pinpoint the best possible times to observe and, say, on what day and at what time is Saturn going to be at its highest elevation this year. So, overall, and at less than £30, I regard this as probably the best all-round “buy” – in short a “must-have” astronomy package – and one which provides wonderful scope for armchair and field observing and fascinating opportunities for leisure and education. Mike Whitecross
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not that great,
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This review is from: RedShift 5 (CD-ROM)
This wasn't what I was expecting. Whilst the database is very comprehensive, the graphics are not all that good, there is nothing resembling a printed manual and the online help isn't especially helpful. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to move around in space and you need some kind of a degree in astrophysics to figure out all the co-ordinates. On the bright side it is useful as an up-to the minute star chart for identifying those bright things in the sky that you sometimes argue with your mates over ("Planets don't twinkle, that's Uranus!") and you can download co-ordinates for additional/new objects from the internet, for instance I used it to track the positions of the pathfinder and mars explorer probes. You can also add your own objects, so I guess if you had a degree in maths you could simulate a massive asteroid hitting the earth, but don't expect hollywood style results that's all.
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