Starry Night Enthusiast 6.0 Version 6

Easily navigate around the night sky for a rich, rewarding stargazing experience. Dive into the interactive, multimedia SkyGuide for the fascinating science and history of your sightseeing destinations. Breathtaking realism and a new spaceship mode put you in the pilot's seat for an adventure of a lifetime. The only limit is your imagination.

New Features in Starry Night Enthusiast 5.0:

Deepen your explorations with over 70 interactive, multimedia tours

Plan observing sessions using SkyCalendar full of upcoming astronomical events

Zoom in on 13,000 deep-sky objects from the NGC-IC catalog

Enjoy new, high-resolution constellation illustrations and panoramas

Fly around the universe using joystick-supported spaceship mode

Other Features:

Explore without limits 700 million light years of space

View 2,500,000 stars and 40,000+ deep-space objects

Learn how to instantly identify planets, stars and constellations

Locate objects easily using the "Find” pane

Add your own comets, asteroids, satellites and even imaginary planets

Print detailed star charts for your next outing under the stars

Receive automatic updates of new discoveries and orbital data of satellites, comets and asteroids

New Features

Space Missions (Probe Paths) - Follow the actual path of a space probe's orbit through the solar system in Starry Night. The space probe's past, current and future paths can be drawn onscreen. Explore interplanetary space missions and relive some of the spectacular views seen by Voyager 1 and 2, Pioneer 10 and 11, Galileo, Mars Express, and Cassini and Huygens.

3-D Object Models - Starry Night now supports 3DS models with textured surfaces, allowing for the display of irregularly shaped 3-dimensional objects such as spacecraft or small planetary moons and asteroids. The spacecraft models of Pioneer 10 and 11, Galileo and the Cassini Huygens probe and the asteroids Annefrank, Braille, Bacchus are included.

Clear Sky Clock (Internet connection required) - Check out your local astronomical weather forecast when planning your observing session.

Google Maps Integration (Internet connection required) – Click on any location on Earth while hovering and select Google Map for a Google Map for that precise location.

Zip/Postal code look-up - Find the latitude and longitude of your location by entering your zip code (US) or postal code (Canada).

Searchable Locations - Locations are now searchable by country, province/state, and location "type" (e.g. observatory).

Location Markers – Assign markers to any predefined location on Earth or any other rocky planet or moon where have surface data is available. For example, the Apollo mission landing sites.

Location Specific Horizon Panoramas - When you select New York from the location list, you will be greeted by a photorealistic landscape of Central Park. Where possible, our panoramas have been associated with their respective locations.

More Detailed Object Info - Stars now show a spectral class

Applescripting added (Mac Only) -- Starry Night is now Applescript-able! Create a script to run a list of Starry Night files in sequence.

"Universal Binary" compatible (Mac only)- Starry Night runs on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers.

Improved Printing -3-pane printing will shows a naked eye view, a finderscope view and an eyepiece view on the same chart, a great tool for star hopping. Print out planispheres.

Improved Object Name Database – Objects with multiple star catalogs entries will be grouped under a single entry making it easier to search for targets.

Animated Horizon Panoramas

Pronunciation Guide of Astronomical Terms and Objects

Improved OpenGL graphics (including real-time cloud cover from orbit)

Additional Spacecraft and Asteroid 3D Models

System Requirements

Macintosh:

OS X 10.3 or higher (will not run on OS 9.x or earlier)

G3 450 MHz or higher processor

128 MB RAM

500 MB of hard disk space

OpenGL support requires a 32 MB OpenGLcapable graphics card

Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels

Windows:

Windows XP

500 MHz or higher processor

128 MB RAM

500MB of hard disk space

OpenGL support requires a 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card

Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels

Basic support for joysticks recognized by Windows XP and Mac OS X.

Requirements for Video DVD: Home DVD player and TV, or computer with DVD player.