This means you can put yourself on the moon and watch To be on Earth! There’s a pull-down menu at the upper left of the dialogīox that lets you “stand on” any planet or moon in the solar It in as before for your current preferred location. Thisīrings up the same location dialog box you used for your home location. Locationº or click the Location button on the Tool palette (Figure 1). You aren’t interested in seeing your home sky, either choose Go/ Viewing (You can change thisĪt any time by going to the Go menu and selecting Set Home Locationº.) If Of your choice, or just click on a point on the map. Use the Lookup list to select Washington, USA (or any otherĬity you wish to consider as your home base), or add a latitude and longitude When you first open Starry Night, a dialog box will open for you to set your “ home Set your location and time and viewing direction Of view, your elevation above the surface, and how often you want updates You first set the place and time at which you want to be looking at the sky.įrom there, you adjust the direction in which you are looking, the field Here’s how to get started quickly, without reading the manual. To use, and I recommend at least skimming the subjects to see what you’ve In the palettes are hard to understand without a guide. You can get Starry Night to work just playing with it, but several featuresĪre likely to be overlooked if you ignore the manual, and many of the buttons In fact, the Time window is the only way to set your desired time. Palette windows offer a quicker way to access most of Starry Night’sįeatures. Several palettes can be opened as well, which fit comfortablyĪlong the side of your window if you have a resolution of 1024x728. Software before, however, you can quickly get to the basic stuff just by You are new to astronomy or to desktop planetaria. Starry Night Pro is not easily figured out without reading the manual if You open the Starry Night CD icon just click as needed. The Installer appears on your desktop when In PDF form), and a 200+ page book with an introduction to astronomy, includingĪlthough Starry Night can be run from the CD, you should install the programĪnd associated files on your hard disk, both for better performance and toīe able to save your settings. The Starry Night Pro package contains a CD-ROM, a good manual (also provided Hardware), access to Internet databases, and other advanced features. Time period, computer operation for telescopes (if they have the appropriate While the Pro version ($130) reviewed here adds large star catalogs, a long The Backyard version ($50 $35 if you download it) gives you most of theįunctionality described below the Basic version ($30) has fewer stars andĬovers a shorter time period (though it’s adequate for naked eye viewing), You the appearance of the sky: stars and galaxies, the moon, planets, andĪrtificial satellites, at any time or place you choose. Starry Night is one of the best of the desktop planetarium programs. That you can be the one to tell all your fellow travelers, “That’s Putting a planetarium on your desktop is aĬonvenient and affordable way to learn to recognize the constellations, so The star patterns on the sky - the constellations - nowadays we usuallyĮxperience them only during faraway vacations, with no opportunity to learn Whereas people living a century ago were often familiar with Of street and building lighting, a sky full of stars has become an unfamiliar population living in urban areas, and a proliferation Home About Membership Calendar Events Journal Help Community Resources Whimsy Twitter Facebook Review of Starry Night Pro By Susan Kayser Washington Apple Pi Journal, reprint
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