Starry Night Pro

Starry Night Pro – Stunningly realistic, it immerses you in the wonders of the universe. Now with more than 2.5 hours of video multimedia featuring dramatic, accurate visualisation of astronomical objects and phenomena and engaging guest experts. You can add custom field-of-view indicators to match your telescope eyepieces, binoculars or CCD and 360-degree photos of your own back garden and favourite observing sites. Track the latest satellites, comets and asteroids, and control most popular brands of computerised telescopes.

• Enhanced observation planner to plan a night under the stars.
• Store comments & images on individual targets in observation logs.
• Live Sky™Panel.
• View from anywhere on Earth or select from a database of over 8,000 cities.
• See the sky from any location in the universe up to 700 million light years away.
• Print personalised star charts.
• OpenGL® support renders high-end 3D graphics.
• Create QuickTime™movies and export images.
• 16 million stars and corrected NGC/IC catalogues.
• Tycho 2/Hipparcos 3D star database.
• PGC catalogue with 70,000 galaxies.
• Control most popular brands of computerised telescopes ( additional cable required).
• Includes bonus “SkyTheater” DVD with over an hour of original movies about space.
• Special spaceship mode to manoeuvre around the universe.

Windows™

• Windows Vista*/XP/Windows 7**
• 500 MHz or higher processor
• 128 MB RAM and 900 MB of hard disk space.
• 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card.
• Internet Connection
• Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
  

Macintosh™

• Universal Binary runs natively on Intel and PPC Macintosh computers.
• OS X 10.3.9, 10.4 and 10.5
• 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.

*Starry Night will run on a Windows Vista computer provided the latest graphics card Vista drivers supporting hardware-accelerated OpenGL are installed.

** When updated to 6.4.3 using the update disc provided

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