Starry Night - Complete Space & Astronomy Pack

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With direct, easy-to-understand explanations and impressive visuals of all kinds of night sky phenomena, Complete Space & Astronomy Pack is the perfect way to share the wonders of the universe with your entire family.

Find out what it is like to be an astronaut in spaceship mode where you can travel to the edges of the known universe. See what the universe looked like thousands of years ago or what it will look like thousands of years from now. As new discoveries are made, the new objects will automatically update into the software!

You'll never be 'lost in space' with this stellar planetarium-in-a-box that gets you up and viewing in minutes.

• 50 interactive, guided tours
• SkyTheater DVD - over 1 ½ hours of original movies about space
• Starry Night Companion, a bonus 192-page electronic book
• SmartFind - locate objects easily
• Daily Events Reminder
• Pronunciation of constellations and over 500 celestial objects
• Object-specific descriptions for 400 popular deep sky objects
• View the night sky from any location on Earth
• Database of over 8000 locations or find location by longitude/latitude
• Learn how to identify planets, stars and popular asterisms
• Blast off to visit any planet in the solar system, its moons or the Milky Way
• Travel in time from 4713 BC to 3000 AD
• Learn about the movements of the planets and watch the phases of the moon Explore 1,000,000 stars from the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 3D star catalogues
• Manoeuver around a 3-D universe created exclusively using the Tully database with 3-D positions of 28,000 galaxies
• ?Status' and ?info' panes - Know where, when and what you're observing
• Joystick supported spaceship mode - Fly around the universe
• Magnify up to 600,000x
• Depicts realistic twilight, daytime and nighttime views
• High-resolution illustrations of all 88 constellations
• Zoom in on the Best of Hubble Space Telescope images
• Built-in astronomy Dictionary
• Save or export colour images to create your own space art
• Print star charts
• Instant online updates of asteroids, comets and satellites (Internet connection required)

Windows™

• Windows™ XP
• 500 MHz or higher processor
• 128 MB RAM and 500MB of hard disk space
• OpenGL® support requires a 32 MB OpenGL® capable graphics card
• Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.

Macintosh™

• MAC OS X 10.3 or higher,
• G3 450 MHz or higher processor
• 128 MB RAM and 500 MB of hard disk space
• Will not run on OS 9.x or earlier
• OpenGL® support requires a 32 MB OpenGL® capable graphics card
• Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels. *(Deep Space Explorer will run on Classic mode in OS X.)