Starry Night College Browser Edition

Why Starry Night College Browser Edition?

Starry Night College Browser Edition is built on our most featured and powerful, web delivered astronomy application. It contains the incredible features of our desktop planetarium plus a higher education module complete with 45 lesson plans joined to exercises and hundreds of customized simulations, animations, images and interactions. Starry Night College helps you teach a more satisfying course by making it easy for your students to visually grasp the concepts of astronomy.

Five Important Advantages of Starry Night College

• Easy-to-use menus, systems and controls
• Updates are automatic – you’re always using the latest version
• The application runs in the browser, no need for tech interaction
• Uses a standard internet connection
• Compatible with PCs, Macs, Chromebooks & Tablets
• Scalable lessons for use in all classroom settings

What Makes Starry Night College Browser Edition So Effective

• Exercises receive regular review and update
• Lessons enhanced with Guiding Questions, Key Concepts and Did-you-knows
• Expanded asteroid catalog with highlighted families & groups
• Analemma can now be drawn on planet surfaces
• Extragalactic 3D Database includes over 100K galaxies & 1B lights years of space
• Photorealistic Horizon Panoramas make you feel like you’re there
• All known exoplanets as 3D bodies with proper location, size, orbit & texture
• Home Location set by IP Address automatically
• Universal Search easily locates objects, favorites, options & events
• Highly detailed surface textures of planets and major moons
• Stars accurately rendered as 3-D bodies with classification, color, texture & relative radii
• The most precise planetary positions available
• Uses Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL-DE-422 ephemerides
• 3.5K unique object descriptions for stars/planets/moons/satellites/exoplanets/missions/deep sky objects
• 2.5MM stars, and over 32K deep sky objects
• Includes the entire NGC/IC catalog and 7K asteroids, comets, and satellites
• Always adding new Tours and Media
• Planet Rendering for terrain shadows, specular reflections & city night lights
• Updated Messier catalog with new visually stunning images for star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies

Worksheets

• Student Worksheets