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Imaginova Starry Night Pro Plus 6 (PC/Mac)
 
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Imaginova Starry Night Pro Plus 6 (PC/Mac)

by Imaginova
Platform:    Windows XP, Mac OS X
3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:    Windows XP, Mac OS X
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • Zoom in on full-color AllSky CCD image mosaic of the entire night sky
  • AllSky CCD image loads 20X faster in DDS texture format
  • View positions and outlines of 1400 dark, emission, planetary and reflection nebulae
  • Identify 1700 globular and open star clusters
  • Fly over super-high resolution 24-bit color map of Mars land mass topography above the sea
  • Hover over Earth and see details within 1 km (0.6 miles) resolution
  • Create your own astrophotography using imaging plug-in to integrate Starry Night and MaxIm DL* imaging software (sold separately, Windows only)

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  • ASIN: B000MFPA7G
  • Release Date: 26 Jan 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,665 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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    #14 in  Software > Hobbies & Pastimes > Astronomy & Space
    #15 in  Software > Education & Reference > Reference > Astronomy & Space
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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
For the advanced amateur astronomer, the full-color AllSky CCD mosaic, sophisticated telescope controls and comprehensive observational tools included in Starry Night Pro Plus version 6 will engage you in the hobby like no other software. The biggest single addition to Starry Night software since its inception, the full-color AllSky CCD image mosaic of the entire night sky visible from Earth weighs in at 6.44 billion pixels in size. Named AllSky for its uniform coverage from pole to pole, it's a single picture of the whole sky that has now been precisely mapped to Starry Night's computer generated stars and databases. Previously only available to Windows users through Desktop Universe planetarium software, the display of the AllSky image has been drastically improved in Starry Night and is now accessible to Mac users as well.

View on your computer screen an image better than the best-trained human eye can capture in real-time viewing through a telescope on a "good seeing" night. See the entire Milky Way in exquisite detail and then zoom in to explore dust lanes and nebulae. Instead of dots and circles, you will see an actual photo of a star or a deep sky object.

Smoothly and swiftly navigate this full color photograph of the entire night sky, to a limiting magnitude of 14-15. Five years in development, the AllSky CCD mosaic is comprised of about 20,000 individual images, originally imaged at a resolution of 12 arcseconds per pixel with a scientific grade, custom built AP9E CCD camera.

The AllSky image in Starry Night presents the ENTIRE sky as a full-color, seamless mosaic at 5 resolution levels depending on your zoom setting. This consistent resolution, color and depth of coverage eliminates the uncertainties of comparing images from many and varied sources. Zoom from the widest possible view of 180 degrees to 0.5 degree field of view.

If you have the processing power, set the AllSky image to be more precise and a better match between the photographic stars in the AllSky image and the Starry Night stars. For the highest quality AllSky image, you will need a video card with a minimum of 96 MB VRAM.

Version 6 includes an additional 6 GB of the AllSky image in DDS texture format, which enables the AllSky image to load up to 20X faster.

In addition, at wide fields of view, the AllSky image can be rendered via shaders for perfect rendering accuracy and a dramatic speed improvement, but you will need a higher-end OpenGL 2.0 capable graphics card to see this phenomenal improvement. We recommend 128 MB nVidia GeForce 6600 (or higher) or ATI Radeon X800 (or higher).

In all, Starry Night Pro Plus version 6 has over 25 new features that bring more power and control to your observing and imaging. Starry Night Pro Plus will change how you look at the night sky.

New Features:

  • 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
  • Create Observing Lists of astronomical objects using a variety of filters such as magnitude, altitude above horizon, type or database. Quickly see what objects you have observed and which ones you still need to hunt down
  • Find targets effortlessly with three-view starhopping charts customized to your equipment
  • Select your equipment from expanded default database of over 300 Orion, Meade, Celestron and Vixen scopes, binoculars, SBIG, Apogee, FLI and Starlight Express CCD chips and more
  • Recognise 1000+ craters, valleys and more instantly with surface feature outlines for the Moon
  • View the locations of 160+ extrasolar planets
  • Enjoy 8 additional photorealistic Earth horizon panoramas
And all the new data and features of Starry Night Pro version 6, including
  • Take advantage of improved Digital Settings Circles Support for non-motorized telescopes such as Orion SkyQuest IntelliScope, NGCMAX, Lumicon Sky Vector, Discovery Digital Star Finder, Orion SkyWizard III, and Celestron Advanced Astromaster
  • Control your robotic telescope focuser with Computer Controlled Focuser Support (Windows only). Supported models include AstroOptik telescopes, Astrophysics GTO mount, Finger Lakes focusers, Gemini equipped mount, JMI Smart Focus, Meade LX200 and Autostar, Optec TCF-S, and PCFocus.
  • Smoothly track and follow satellites with the Meade LX200 GPS telescope (Mac only)

Other Features:

  • Controls most popular brands of robotic telescopes, including Orion SkyQuest Intelliscope, Meade LX200 and Autostar, Celestron Nexstar series and all ASCOM compliant scopes (additional cable required)
  • Explore 65,000,000 stars
  • Access 500+ million stars online
  • Explore PGC Catalog of 980,000 galaxies
  • Choose from over 30 photorealistic horizon panoramas
  • Add custom field of view indicators to match your telescope eyepiece, binoculars, CCDs or DSLRs
  • And all the data and features of Starry Night Pro version 6

Starry Night Pro Plus version 6 includes:

  • 2 DVD-ROMs 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
  • Basic support for joysticks recognised by Windows XP and Mac OS X.

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

Box Contents

  • 1 X CD-ROM

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    15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars Starry Night on Windows Vista, 12 April 2007
    By M. Brightmore (Lincolnshire, U.K.) - See all my reviews
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    I have just bought Starry Night Pro Plus v.6 and cannot use it with Windows Vista Home Premium. I tried to load it using windows compatibility option (Windows XP with Service Pack 2)but that has sent my system haywire and I've had to restore it. I appreciate that the system requirements do not specify Windows Vista, but version 6 was released about the same time as Vista. There should be a specific warning that this software is NOT yet compatible with Vista.
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    3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Vista Problems Better, 13 Aug 2007
    By Dr. D. M. Armstrong (Uk) - See all my reviews
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    The troubles using Starry night with Vista seem to be achieving solution.
    The problems with Vista seem mostly related to graphics card drivers: update them, and all should be well.
    See Starry Night website for details.
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    2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars starry night pro is a winner, 23 Oct 2007
    By Mr. P. H. Dann (surrey, uk) - See all my reviews
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    A super piece of software that grows on you with use and understanding of its many features. the all sky mosaic alows considerable zooming in to reveal wonderful colour and detail. higher spec processors will undoubtedly do even more justice than my modest laptop albeit with 1 gig ram. there are many many options to this software and its ideal to take you deeper into astronomy.what i particularly like are the direct links to the internet to view current or upcoming astronomical events. the all sky mosaic clinches it for me!
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