Starry Night® Times - Monthly Newsletter

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July 2008
Orion® EON 120mm ED Apochromatic Refracto; Heavenly Choir of Angles; Pluto by Any Other Name; Hercules.

June 2008
Starry Night® looks at Doomsday; Mars Too Salty for Life; Canada's Largest Optical Telescope is in Trouble; Coma Berenices.

May 2008
Spring Fever; Astronomy Day; Virgo.

April 2008
Starry Night® Under Southern Skies; New Kink in Sun's Strange Corona; Oldest-Known Asteroids in Solar System Identified; The Big Dipper and Canes Venatici

March 2008
Free Starry Night® Version 6.2.3 Update; Get Addiction Help Now; See Saturn Now: Lord of the Rings Rocks; Cancer

February 2008
The Cosmic Lesson Competition; Astronomy's Dirty Little Secret; Staging a Solar System Play; Auriga

January 2008
History vs. Starry Night®; Starry Night® Apollo; Taurus

November 2007
Browse the Universe on Your iPhone, iPod touch and Blackberry; The Great Starry Night® Solar System Challenge; Constellation in Focus: Cetus

October 2007
StarShoot™ Solar System Color Imager II; Fun with Starry Night®: Go There; Orion® StarShoot™ Photo Contest Results; Constellation in Focus: Aquarius

September 2007
Finding and Observing Uranus; Orion® VersaGo Mount; Aurigid Meteor Shower Peaks September 1; Constellation in Focus: Capricornus

August 2007
Eclipse at Dawn; Star Charts for Planning Observations; August Meteor Shower Will Be 'A Great Show'; Constellation in Focus: Lyra

July 2007
A very different Jupiter; Celestron NexStar 6E review; Close encounter of a planetary kind, Orion photo contest; Constellation in Focus: Scorpius

June 2007
Sensational Summer Sights!; Appointment with Venus; Shooting the Moon; Imaginova® (Orion®) Interviewed at the NorthEast Astronomy Forum (NEAF); Constellation in Focus: Coma Berenices

May 2007
Starry Night Widget version 1.1.0: Faster and Better than Ever; New Starry Night K-12 Curriculum Versions Now Available; May 19 is International Sidewalk Astronomy Night; Viewing Vesta the Asteroid; Finding Osiris, an exoplanet with an atmosphere that contains water; Constellation in Focus: Leo

April 2007
Starry Night in the News: Popular Science Editor Praises Starry Night; Starry Night Widget Hits Top 5 of Apple's Dashboard Downloads; Starry Night Middle School and High School SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard Ready; Visit us at Booth #490 at NSTA - St. Louis; The Lion of Spring; Messier Marathon (Part 2 of 2): What Really Happened?; Constellation in Focus: Crater

March 2007
Messier Marathon (Part 1 of 2): Walk, Don't Run!; Ambush an Asteroid; Starry Night on the Road: Celebration of Teaching and Learning, March 23-24, New York City and National Science Teachers Association Conference, March 29-31, St. Louis, MO; To Pluto, by Jove!; Invitation to Participate in National Astronomy Education Survey; Constellation in Focus: Orion

February 2007
Breaking News: Sky and Telescope Review of Starry Night Bluestar Telescope Adapter, Capturing the Lord of the Rings: Tips on Imaging Saturn, How Far are the Constellations?, Two Eyes are Better than One, FREE Starry Night 6.0.4 Update, Amazing Images: Comet McNaught, Constellation in Focus: Canis Major

January 2007
Happy Perihelion, Cold Weather Observing, Starry Night Middle School Adopted in Arkansas, FREE Starry Night 6.0.3 Update, Constellation in Focus: Perseus

December 2006
'Tis the Season to be Jolly. Why? - The Winter Solstice, Stocking Stuffers, Buying a Telescope?, Try a Pair of Binoculars, Starry Night Digital Download New Version 6, Constellation in Focus: Cetus

November 2006
Robbinsdale Area Schools Purchase District License of Starry Night Middle School, Become A Starry Night Affiliate!, FREE Nov. 8 Mercury Transit Viewer's Guide, Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Expected Nov. 18, Review of Orion® StarBlast™ 4.5 EQ Reflector and Orion® Expanse™ Eyepieces, Starry Night® 6.0.1 Update Now Available, Starry Night® On The Road: Fall Shows, Constellations in Focus: Pegasus

October 2006
Brighter Space Station Might Rival Venus in Night Sky,Alas, Poor Pluto!, Blame Me For The Weather, Telescope Myths, Review of Orion® StarShoot™ Solar System Color Imaging Camera, Starry Night® On The Road: Fall Shows, Constellations in Focus: Aries, Triangulum, Andromeda

September 2006
Geoff Gaherty's Top 4 Favorite Features of New Starry Night Version 6, Other New Features of Starry Night Version 6, Constellation in Focus: Cygnus

August 2006
Catching 2004 XP14, From the Small Screen to the Big Dome, Spitz Digital Institute, Starfest - August 24-27, Now is the Time to See Neptune, Constellation in Focus: Sagittarius

July 2006
Observing the Red Spots on Jupiter, Orion's 100mm ED versus Tele Vue's 85mm, Astronomy Day Contest Winner,Research Confirms Starry Night® is Highly Effective Science Instructional Tool, Observing Alert - July 3, Asteroid 2004 XP14 passes within 430,000 KM (268,000 miles) of the Earth, Bluestar Video Tutorial, Constellation in Focus: Hercules,

June 2006
Starry Night on the Road (NSTA and NEAF), Attention New Mexico Teachers: Starry Night Middle School and High School Adopted, Star Hopping Primer, Old Scope: New Tricks, Constellation in Focus: Virgo

May 2006
Hot off the Press - Not 'Geeks' but 'Intellectually Curious', Astronomy Day: May 6 Contest, Total Solar Eclipse Report from Libya, Starry Night Education Awards, How to View Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 in Starry Night, Constellation in Focus: Canes Venatici

April 2006
Starry Night Workshops at NSTA Anaheim (April 6-8), Astronomy Day: May 6, Smart Star-Art Activity for Young Astronomers, Constellation in Focus: Hydra

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March 2006
Special Solar Eclipse Edition Hot off the Press - Sky & Telescope Magazine, April 2006 Review of Starry Night(r) Pro Plus, And the Sun has Perished out of Heaven: Eclipse Lore and Legend, Darkness at Noon: The Solar Eclipse March 29, 2006, Adventures of an Eclipse Chaser, Guide to new features and fixes in version 5.8.2, Starry Night(r) BlueStar: A Wireless Wonder!, New Comet - POJMANSKI (C/2006 A1), Constellation in Focus: Cancer

February 2006
Gung Hay Fat Choy: The Story of the Chinese New Year, The Riddle of Mercury, Move beyond “Cyclops Viewing” with the Orion Binocular Viewer, Saturn visits the Beehive while the Moon visits the Pleiades, Constellation in Focus: Auriga

January 2006
Saturn through the Ages, Easy Telescope Targets, The Lure of Variable Stars, Recent Praise for Starry Night Pro Plus, Constellation in Focus: Taurus

December 2005
Stocking Stuffers, NEW BlueStar Adapter, Constellation in Focus: Cassiopeia, Amazing Images Contest Winner

October-November 2005
NEW Starry Night 5.7 Update, Starhopping 101, Constellation in Focus: Aquarius, Amazing Images Contest

September 2005
Mars Special Edition Now is the time to observe Mars, A Webcam Primer: Secrets of AstroPhotography, Constellation in Focus: Capricornus, Amazing Images Contest

August 2005
First Steps in the Deep Sky, Old World/New Worlds, Sneak Peak & On the Road, Constellation in Focus: Sagittarius

July 2005
Target: The Three Realms, Comet Contributions, Product Praise and Announcements, Constellation in Focus: Scorpius

June 2005
Target: Comet 9P/Tempel 1, Locating Comet Tempel 1 in Starry Night, Constellation in Focus: Coma Berenices

May 2005
Target: Middle School, Constellation in Focus: Virgo

April 2005
Target: Starry Night Pro Plus, Constellation in Focus: Leo, MacWorld Giveaway Winners, Free Starry Night 5.0.5 Update

March 2005
Target: AllSky, Constellation in Focus: Big Dipper and Canes Venatici

February 2005
Target: Sky Surfing, Constellation in Focus: Canis Major

January 2005
Target: Exploring Orion, Constellation in Focus: Orion, Saturn: Lord of the Rings

December 2004
Target: Star of Bethlehem, Constellation in Focus: Perseus, Christmas in the Heavens, Comet Machholz

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