Starry Night Enthusiast 6
Turn your computer into an interactive planetarium!
Explore a vast array of astronomical wonders, both natural and man-made! Replay spectacular fly-bys of Voyager, Galileo, and other famous space missions. Never miss your chance to witness celestial events, such as Jupiter satellite shadow transits, with the powerful Events Finder. Easily navigate around the cosmos using SkyGuide as your tour guide. Starry Night Enthusiast 6.3 Astronomy Software gives you the freedom and resources to explore the night sky on your computer or with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars.
Starry Night Enthusiast makes a perfect gift for an astronomer (or a budding astronomer) in your life. Our Packaged option (selectable below) is designed for gift giving.
Over 20 New Features Including:
- 5 additional photorealistic horizon panoramas
- Saturn's rings and ring shadows more precise than ever
- Dramatically improved spaceship responsiveness
- Shadow cones can be displayed to show the shadows of orbiting bodies
- More galaxy types in the Tully database
- Edit and display Universal Time
- Precessional path of the celestial poles
- Improved find feature will help find objects of the same name
- Automatic updates
- Add moons to dwarf planets
- Add or edit planet surface images or 3DS model assignments.
- User-specified images are rendered on moons
- Comets included in printed output
- Peak times for meteor showers
Features:
- Explore over 2.5 million stars and 13 thousand deep-sky objects
- See the sky from any location in the universe up to 700 million light years away
- Travel in time from 4713 BC to 9999 AD
- Deepen your explorations and understanding of the universe with over 70 interactive multimedia SkyGuide tours
- ·1 DVD-ROM of Starry Night software for Windows and Macintosh
- Starry Night Companion, a 192-page illustrated astronomy book PDF (embedded within the program)
- New, comprehensive 210-page User's Guide PDF (embedded within the program)
- DVD-ROM Drive
- Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
- 500 MHz or higher processor
- 128 MB RAM
- 900 MB of hard disk space
- 32 MB OpenGL 1.4 capable graphics card
- Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
- DVD-ROM Drive
- Universal Binary (PPC/Intel compatible)
- OS X 10.4 or higher
- G3 450 MHz or higher processor
- 128 MB RAM
- 900 MB of hard disk space
- 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card
- Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
