LunarPhase Pro

Many people already know about the great Moon watching software toolkit LunarPhase Pro. It has really changed the way the average person watches the night sky. With its robust feature list, almost too long to name, you can see detailed maps of the moon, animate the lunar libration over the course of a month, and zoom in and check out the nooks and crannies of the moon’s surface. But what you might not know is that there a few features that may make your life easier in other ways that are hidden in the long feature list that LunarPhase Pro includes.

Watch NASA TV streamed from the internet
With LunarPhase Pro you can now watch NASA TV from within the software all conveniently set up for your viewing pleasure. If you live in the U.S. and have satellite T.V. then you might be able to pick this up, but for the rest of the world, you are out of luck. Luckily NASA has provided a live streamed feed to the internet and this is now linked directly to your screen with LunarPhase Pro. This will require a high-speed internet connection.

Find Out if the Moon interferes During Meteor Showers
If you’re like me, meteor showers are one of the most exciting things to watch in the night sky. It’s great to take the children and wait in anticipation to see the lights flash by. With LunarPhase Pro, you are plan your events with much more ease. You can find out if the Moon is going to be too bright and wash out your meteor shower fun. This is just one of the hidden uses that LunarPhase Pro offers.

Use LunarPhase Pro to Plan Your Photography
I love this feature. All photographers know the term “magic hour”. It’s that special time of day when you can point and shoot and photo magic truly happens. Beautiful sunsets provide great opportunities for outdoor portraits or landscape shots. With LunarPhase Pro you can plan out your shoots for the best light. Sunrise and sunset times are already provided for your locations on any day that you choose. This is nice use for any professional or amateur photographers and makes planning your shoot that much easier.

LunarPhase Pro is definitely not for everyone, but for the modest price it is a nice tool to have and can provide a few uses other than just Moon watching. To begin using LunarPhase Pro CLICK HERE.

AMAZING PICTURES OF THE MOON

This link has nothing to do with Lunar Phase Pro except that you could use Lunar Phase Pro to find schedule out your times to take these amazing pictures yourself. To begin using Lunar Phase Pro Click Here.

Feature Wrap Up

Another great addition to Lunar Phase Pro is the software’s top-down view. With this you are able to view all the features of the Moon that we can’t see here from Earth. You can zoom in to look at craters and maybe find a good spot to build your house one day.

Lunar Phase Pro doesn’t put you on the moon but with its robust set of features, it provides a whole new experience for Moon watchers. And the price isn’t bad either. It starts at around $50 and is even cheaper if you opt for the downloaded version. The usefulness of Lunar Phase Pro ranges from the experienced to the amateur. You can also download the demo version and try it out first. To begin using Lunar Phase Pro CLICK HERE.

Watching the moon has always been a passion of mine. I wouldn’t call myself an expert, just a hobbyist. Catching a glimpse of a big beautiful harvest moon tends to take my breath away. For the amateur moon watchers out there like me, it’s always been a guess or a lot of hard work to find out what kind of moon will appear and when. Now, thanks to Lunar Phase Pro, moon watching just got a lot easier and more educational. Here are three features of Lunar Phase Pro that will take your moon watching to the next level.

Photo Realistic Images

Lunar Phase Pro is a software toolkit with many stunning features to make your moon watching more productive. One of these great features is the ability to see near photo-realistic views of the Lunar surface via the Lunar Explorer utility. These views can also be printed as custom built maps. Maps can also be oriented to match the view through your telescope or binoculars. Zooming and panning is smooth, but when zoom in all they way there is a little image quality loss. A new feature that has recently been added to Lunar Phase Pro is the ability to display very high resolution Moon charts. These have to be downloaded but Lunar Phase Pro handles that for you. You can save them for viewing offline at your own convenience. All maps can be printed out.

Lunar Libration

One very nice feature is that the software allows you to produce a high resolution animation of lunar libration, the up/down, left/right wobble the Moon goes through over the course of a month, providing you with a very nice moving image of the Moon shifting in all directions. You can set the dates very easily and watch how the moon changes over time. This is a very interesting feature. Lunar Phase Pro corrects the 3D maps for this so you are able to see the Moon exactly as it appears in the sky.
To Be Continued…