Starry Night Enthusiast Version 6 (Ref: AQSNIGHT-K14)

Easy to use PC planetarium software on CDROM

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 gives you the freedom and resources to explore the night sky on your computer or with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars.

New Features:

Follow the paths of over 25 interplanetary probes through the solar system.

Ride along with New Horizons on its mission to Pluto and more

Pan around 25 3-D models of spacecraft, including Voyager, Deep Impact, Stardust and more

Zoom in on 3-D models of comets, asteroids and satellites

Track over 830 artificial satellites used for communications, GPS, environmental monitoring and scientific research

Plan observing sessions with Event Finder that instantly displays celestial events, such as lunar and solar eclipses and conjunctions, for months far into the future

Browse a library of over 100 Starry Night files that demonstrate events such as eclipses, planetary alignments and close-ups of galaxies and planets Assign horizon panorama to a specific location on or off Earth with your choice of 11 photorealistic horizon panoramas

Pinpoint the exact location of historical events, such as the Apollo moon landings, with Location Markers

Access up-to-date local observing conditions through online link to Clear Sky Clock (requires Internet connection)

Click on any location on Earth while hovering and select a Google Map for that precise location (requires Internet connection)

Create your own automated guided tour of the universe with AppleScript, which helps you run a list of Starry Night files in sequence (Mac only)

Ambient environment sounds enhance the digital observing experience

Locate objects easily with SmartFind, which cross-indexes and groups all the databases in which an object appears Daily Events Reminder lists all celestial events visible tonight from your backyard

Hear the correct pronunciation of constellations and over 500 celestial objects And much more. Starry Night Enthusiast version 6 includes:

CD-ROM of Starry Night software for Windows and Macintosh

Exclusive SkyTheater” DVD with over an hour or original movies about space Starry Night Companion, a 192-page illustrated astronomy book

New, comprehensive 210-page User’s Guide.

System Requirements To run Starry Night Enthusiast version 6 you need:

Windows: Requires Windows XP, 500 MHz or higher processor, 128 MB RAM and 900 MB of hard disk space. 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card. Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.

Starry Night 6.0.6 will run on a Windows Vista computer provided the latest graphics card Vista drivers supporting hardware-accelerated OpenGL are installed. At present, there are Vista drivers that do not support hardware-accelerated OpenGL to the extent required by Starry Night. This is beyond our control.

The following graphics cards have been successfully tested against Starry Night on Windows Vista using latest manufacturer's drivers:

Macintosh: Universal Binary runs natively on Intel and PPC Macintosh computers. Requires OS X 10.3.9 or higher, G3 450 MHz or higher processor, 128 MB RAM and 900 MB of hard disk space. Will not run on OS 9.x or earlier. 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card. Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels