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From AstroGrav Astronomy Software:
AstroGrav is an astronomy software program that allows you to simulate how astronomical objects move and interact under the force of gravity. It features superb interactive 3D graphics which allow you to move around within a many-body astronomical system, while watching how it evolves with the passage of time. A wide variety of sample files are provided, including Solar System, space mission, and abstract systems, and these enable you to experiment with the astronomy software without having to enter your own data. The comprehensive editing facilities allow you to either create your own astronomical systems, or to modify existing ones, and provide you with an almost endless scope for experimentation and investigation. AstroGrav calculates how astronomical objects move according to Newton's Law of Gravitation, and displays the results as they are calculated so that you can watch the system evolve as in a movie. AstroGrav is very accurate, dynamically calculates orbits as a system evolves, deals correctly with object collisions, and can cope simultaneously with objects on many different timescales. AstroGrav comes complete with a tutorial and full documentation.
What's new in this version:
- Added the View / Show / Barycenter and View / Show / Grayscale commands.
- Made several improvements to the sample simulations.
- Corrected a fault that caused the Evolve / Evolve To... command to evolve to the wrong time when the time step was changed during evolution.
- Added the Control+U (Command+U on a Mac) keyboard shortcut to the Window / Units command.
- Corrected a fault that caused Control+Double-Click (Command+Double-Click on a Mac) on a view window to incorrectly sho... See all new features
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