Shadows Pro is a software package for designing sundials and astrolabes, developed by a French amateur astronomer François Blateyron. Shadows allows you to easily create a sundial customized for your location and then to build it thanks to printouts to scale. Shadows is free in its base level. It is used by thousands of users around the world. Discover the world of sundials on this web site through educational pages and photo galleries.

Features :
Planispheric astrolabe, universal astrolabe
Vertical declining analemmatic sundial
Bifilar sundials
Drawing of azimuth and altitude lines on the sundial
Sidereal hours, unequal hours
Solar graph (azimuth-altitude) with horizon mask
Colored background outside solstice arcs
Export of drawing layout in DXF (AutoCAD)
Export of animations in AVI
Tool for the calculation of sundial parameters from a photo
Efficiency graph of a solar pannel

Plane sundials with polar style (horizontal, vertical declining, equatorial, polar, meridian)
Sundial drawn to scale 1, of any size and any orientation or reclination
Compatible with any location on Earth, in northern or southern hemisphere (5100 locations installed)
Style drawn to scale 1
Tables of coordinates of hour line points and declination arcs
Drawing of solar or mean hours, with or without longitude correction
Text frames that can be moved and resized on the sundial, with preinstalled list of mottoes
Equation of time drawn in various forms
Drawing of a protractor and azimuth circle
Export of data in Excel format
Copy-paste of images in bitmap format
Fully illustrated 130-page user manual
User interface translated in 17 languages

Inclined and declining sundial, declining polar sundial, spider sundial
Analemmatic sundials
Cylindrical sundials
Ephemeris tables
Italic hours, Babylonic hours,
Insertion of image frames on the sundial
Export and copy-paste of drawing layout in EMF (vector format)
Drawing of the construction layout of a sundial
Simulation of the roof's shadow on the sundial
Change of orientation and reclination of a sundial
Tool for the determination of the wall's declination
Direction rose, map of the sky
Mariner's astrolabe
Stars finder map

Homepage

https://www.shadowspro.com

Only for V.I.P