• Realtime rotation, zooming and panning of map
• Choice of 3D sphere or 2D Mollweide projection
• Adjustable mapping from pixel value to color table range
• View Temperature, Polarization or NumObs field
• Save screen shots to image file
• Contextual Help
• OS agnostic

Note: The source of a c version you can compile in Linux is offered.

Features include:

• Semi-automatic alignment of pictures
• Fully automatic alignment of pictures
• Automatic adjustment of the luminosity of the different pictures
• Calculation of an optimal colour palette
• Softening the process of «gluing» the different images together (the centre of a picture is always given preference).

Satellitarium computes high precision positions by using the standard SGP4/SDP4 satellite motion models. Orbital elements for satellites are loaded directly from standard TLE (two-line elements) files.

Beside position display, Satellitarium is capable of doing different searches on satellite conditions. It can, for example, search for visible passes over observer location or for eclipsing periods of satellites.

Features foreseen for future releases include printing and enhanced display. And, given that my brother owns a Meade ETX telescope, I could also try to add some real-time telescope tracking features.