“We are pleased to announce that Southern Stars Systems and the SkyChart III product line have been acquired by Carina Software and Mathis Instruments of Danville, California, USA. All of SkyChart III's features and capabilities are being merged into Carina's flagship sky simulation and telescope control program, Voyager III. We will continue to support SkyChart III until the release of the merged program, Voyager 4, in mid-2005.”
SkyChart III is an advanced planetarium program that accurately simulates and displays the sky as it appears in the present, or from thousands of years in the past or future. SkyChart III is also a telescope control program, supporting all of the leading computer-controlled telescopes available on the market today. The Windows version of SkyChart III has the following computer system requirements: • 128 MB of memory • 35 MB of hard disk space; 510 MB for optional large database • Pentium II 233 MHz or faster processor • Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP There are two Macintosh versions of SkyChart III: one for "Classic" Mac OS, and a "Carbon" version for Mac OS X. The Macintosh versions have the following computer system requirements: • 128 MB of memory • 35 MB of hard disk space; 510 MB for optional large database • PowerPC G3 233 MHz or faster processor • Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2 for Classic version; Mac OS X for Carbon version