Shadows

Shadows allows you to design sundials and astrolabes. To create a sundial or astrolabe click on the new icon and the wizard will guide you step by step during the process.

You can create analemmatic, horizontal, meridian, polar or shepherd sundials, and planispheric astrolabes. It already contains a database with more than 2500 locations from countries all around the world, but you can add manually a location by entering its latitude and longitude. You can use draw lines completely or when the sun is above the horizon. Sundials can be calculated and printed at scale 1:1. Technical sheet can be accessed to show all the geographical and positional data of the sundial. Declination lines for the solstice and equinoxes can be drawn. Also you can use coordinate tables. Drawings can be exported as BMP, JPG, EMF, and DXF format. The real price of the program is 50€ (Euros). The price described was taking the exchange rate 1.398; see the buy URL for more details. System requirements: Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.