Shadows 3.5 Build 5836

Shadows - The ideal application for understanding and designing sundials and astrolabes.

The ideal application for understanding and designing sundials and astrolabes.

Shadows software was designed to be a program used to design sundials. Shadows can be used by everybody without any required technical skills. Shadows will calculate everything and print the drawing according the user's preferences.

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 Astronomy Society (Societe Astronomique de France).

Note:
Shadows in its basic level is free.
It comes with a powerful set of functions and a full documentation. If you want to discover further functions, you can acquire a license of Shadows Expert or Shadows Pro.

Shadows features:

- 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 (2800 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
- Full online help, user interface translated in 13 languages

Limitations:

- The following features are disabled:
- Analemmatic sundials
- Cylindrical sundials
- Ephemeris tables
- Drawing of italic and babylonic hours
- Insertion of image frames on the sundial
- Exportation of data and images
- 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

Shadows 3.5 Build 5836 is licensed as Demo for the Windows operating system / platform. Shadows is provided as a free to try download for all software users (Demo).