- Platform: Windows, Mac
- Media: CD-ROM
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Product Features
- Starry Night companion book – over 200 pages on understanding the night sky using Starry Night
- Access to LiveSky on the Internet for additional online astronomy resources
- Multimedia CD-ROM "Atlas of the Sky" with over 90 minutes of minidocumentaries and compelling video visualisations of the Universe
- Observational planner – View current and interesting events and objects quickly
- Printable detailed Star Charts
- Orbit Editor – create your own comets, asteroids, planets or moons
- Travel in time from 4713 BC to 9999 AD
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In the past 50 years enthusiastic amateur astronomers have made a number of important discoveries. Starry Night Backyard is a CD-ROM package which is targeted at this audience, adding greatly to the tools at the amateur astronomer's disposal.
The package is extraordinarily eclectic--one moment you can be viewing the sky as it now is in Abidjan or Rio de Janeiro, and the next you can visit Mars or indeed any location within 20,000 light years (surely enough for most of us). This range is supplemented by some excellent visual effects: the moving graphics, as you travel through the solar system and past the edges of planets and moons, are quite otherworldly. Supplemented to previous editions is a lengthy companion book--"Starry Night Companion"--which adds to the user's knowledge of the night sky, and the facility to create your own star charts for the next time you want to go out stargazing.
The software is designed so that you can select your home geographical coordinates, and then explore the constellations as you perceive them from home. However, what really distinguishes this CD-ROM is the scope it offers in terms of interstellar "travel". With the range of viewing locations on offer, you can experience the fearful darkness of Pluto and the searing heat of a sunny day on Mercury. You can also turn to interesting events in the past, including many solar and lunar eclipses, and experience the passage of comets and asteroids.
This range is what will really attract people to this package. Among the consolations for the freezing winter temperatures suffered by those who live in northern Europe and the northern part of North America are the crisp wintry nights, when the stars are as clearly visible as at any other time in the year; now, with the help of Starry Night Backyard, we can all go out and discover the mysteries of the heavens for ourselves.--Toby Green
Manufacturer's Description
Amazingly realistic, Starry Night Backyard 4.x is designed for anyone with an interest in the night sky. It enables you to see the sky from anywhere on earth or blast-off and visit any solar system body or any location up to 20,000 light years away. View 2,500,000 stars and over 170 deep-space objects including galaxies, star clusters and nebulae.
Starry Night Backyard contains over 90 minutes of compelling multimedia video with handy star charts to explore outside. Learn about the movement of the planets, watch the phases of the moon and see what the starts looked like on the day you were born! Travel 15,000 years in time or check out the view from the International Space Station. Watch Jupiter from one of its moons with stunning OpenGL supporting high-performance 3D graphics. Hitch a ride on a comet, travel to the International Space Station or track the Space Shuttle. You’ll learn to identify planets, stars and popular constellations like "The Big Dipper" and track hundreds of satellites, asteroids and comets.
Multiple views let you watch an eclipse from a planet, its moon and the sun - all at the same time. You can animate sky views using fully customisable steps and even create your own movies and images. Stay current by updating comets, asteroids and satellites on the Web.
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