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Designed for anyone who demands the utmost in realism, richness of detail and depth of information, Starry Night Pro is serious astronomy software.
With Starry Night Pro, you can view stunningly realistic star fields from 20,000 light-years out, or from your own backyard. You can add images, Internet links and your own custom data sets. You can even track the latest satellites, comets and asteroids. What's more, with over 19 million celestial objects, Starry Night Pro offers instantaneous access to our unique 3D implementation of the complete Hipparcos star database, plus the Hubble GSC, NGC/IC and PGC catalogues, as well as the Messier deep-space objects. With Starry Night Pro, you're limited only by your imagination.
Starry Night Pro includes the special edition Starry Night Companion, a 240 page guide to understanding astronomy and the night sky using Starry Night. Starry Night Companion was written by noted Griffith Observatory Planetarium Director, John Mosley and features an introduction by Andrew L. Chaikin, acclaimed author of A Man on the Moon.
Features
- View from any location on Earth.
- View from any planet, moon, comet, asteroid or satellite.
- View from anywhere within 20,000 light-years of the solar system.
- Automatic online database searches for any object via Internet connection.
- Over 19 million stars.
- Travel through 200,000 years of time.
- Animate sky views using fully customizable time steps.
- Track hundreds of satellites, asteroids and comets.
- Complete Hipparcos/Tycho star database.
- Magnify up to 600,000 times.
- Print advanced star charts.
- Classical illustrations of the constellations.
- Over 80,000 deep-sky objects with links to the Digitized Sky Survey images of each object on the Internet.
- Add your own deep-sky photos.
- Enhanced object information.
- Equatorial and ecliptic guides.
- Galactic and alt-az guides.
- Dynamic Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams.
- QuickTime movie tool.
- Picture-making tool.
- Zoom-out to 180?.
- Orbit Editor - add recently discovered comets or asteroids.
- Edit your horizon and create multiple scenery sets.
- Double and variable star markers.
- Customizable screen and print settings.
- Field of view indicators.
- Flip view to mirror image.
- Control Meade LX-200 and Autostar telescopes. (Windows only)
- Includes a complete, printed manual.
Quotes
"Starry Night software is the most realistic and visually stunning astronomy software in any class, a truly superb package for serious astronomy use..." - Astronomy & Space
"Starry Night is as beautiful as it is powerful..., Both a serious tool and a delightful sky simulator... I've seen them all and this one is truly amazing." - Macworld
"This software has almost everything. It is an excellent planetarium program and sky simulator. Starry Night's timing proved extremely accurate." - SkyNews
"Starry Night is an impressive program that has become one of a handful I use on a regular basis. For the price, it's a steal. If you enjoy astronomy you must get Starry Night. An amazing sky simulator." -John Mosley, Sky & Telescope
"The more I used this program, the more I liked it. Of all the astronomy programs I've tried I consider Starry Night the most powerful, most elegant and most pleasing to use." -Jim Kendrick, SkyNews
"I've used sky simulator programs before, but this one is the best - and certainly the most fun...a celestial simulator of exquisite accuracy available for every home computer." -Chet Raymo, Boston Globe
"Starry Night is a superb program. In its screen representation of the night sky, it is without peer. The seamless integration of photographs of Messier objects in computer generated star fields, and the realism of those star fields, is a work of genius. The speed and smoothness of its engine are incredible. Intuitive, and with wide-ranging tools and features, this program is the next best thing to actually going out and observing. I love it." -Astronomy & Space
"Starry Night is the closest you can come to space travel without a heavy suit and a lot of training." -Popular Science
"Starry Night is effortless astronomy software that lets you go anywhere in the solar system. Watch an eclipse from a planet, its moon and the Sun, all at the same time. Recommended." -New Scientist
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- Awards
Awards for Starry Night include Codie Award Winner, Consumers Digest "Best Buy"
System Requirements
To run Starry Night Pro you need:
WindowsTM: PC with a PentiumTM or higher processor, color monitor, CD-ROM drive and Windows 95/98/ME/2000 or Windows NTTM 4.0 or later. Requires 24MB RAM and 50-75MB of hard disk space.
MacintoshTM: PowerPCTM or better, color monitor, CD-ROM drive and System 7.5 or later. Requires 24MB RAM and 50-75MB of hard disk space.
