A genuine sundial or astrolabe at your home
Shadows is a program used to design sundials and astrolabes. It can be used by everybody without any required technical skills. Shadows will calculate everything and print the drawing according the user's preferences.
Key points of Shadows
- Free of charge in its entry level
- Two advanced levels: Shadows Expert and Shadows Pro
- Acclaimed as the simplest software for the design of sundials and astrolabes
- Calculates and prints the drawings at real scale
- Simulates, displays and animates the shadow of the style
- Interactive astrolabe (rotation of the Rete and Alidade using the mouse)
- Exports drawings as BMP, JPG, EMF and DXF (AutoCAD)
- Offers complete ephemeris of the Sun and draws the Solar Diagram
- Supports plane sundials with polar style of any orientation and reclination, analemmatic sundials, cylindrical and bifilar sundials.
- Support planispheric astrolabes (front and back)
- Includes a location database of more than 2500 locations with latitude, longitude and time zone
- Provided with a full on-line help
- Available in 12 languages
- Designed for Windows XP and Windows Vista
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Shadows is acclaimed by thousands of users around the world and by numbers of professional sundial makers and astronomers.
Shadows has been awarded by the French Astronomical Society (Société Astronomique de France).
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