Starry Night Pro

View the stars from your exact location on Earth (or any other location on the planet), or travel throughout the solar system to see views not possible until now. If that's still too close to home, Starry Night can produce views from anywhere within 20,000 light-years of the solar system. With a database of over 19 million celestial objects, there is almost no limit to where you can travel. View satellites, asteroids, and comets, or continuously track their paths in orbit.

Basic information about each star, planet, or galaxy is available within the program. If you desire more in-depth reading, Starry Night Pro will link you directly to the Internet for more detailed information.

The software can also be customized to the individual tastes of each user, with the ability to add labels, guides, and constellations, as well as create your own personal settings. Keep it current by adding your own database of newly discovered celestial objects. You can even throw in customized images and Internet links.

Curious about the way the universe looked in the past or how it will look in the future? This software allows you to travel through 200,000 years of time in a matter of minutes. You can also create QuickTime movies of your adventures and send them to friends.

With almost too many features to mention, Starry Night Pro is an amazing tool for anyone with a fascination for space. It's as close as you will probably ever get to owning your own planetarium. --Joshua Craig

Amazon.com Product Description
This CD is a visually appealing guide to the planets, stars, constellations, and over 70,000 galaxies. Starry Night Pro comes with stellar databases, movable horizons, Internet updates, and a 240-page guidebook, Starry Night Companion, by John Mosley.

Here are just some of the things that you can do within minutes of installing the software...
1) View and track progression of stars, quasars, man-made satellites, planets and constellations from your (or any) location and time zone
2) View the starry night as if you were in another location (or time) in the universe (e.g. the Moon, Pluto, Sirius, or last week or a thousand years from now)
3) Export Starry Night images to other applications
4) Make quicktime movies of celestial events described by the Starry Night software

Net/net:
* Easy to use but POWERFUL astronomy tool
* Excellent instruction manual
* Good tie in from the Starry Night application to astronomy resources on the web
* Obviously created by folks with a love and passion for the science of astronomy
* MUST HAVE for anyone interested in astronomy


New version 4 is now available   November 9, 2002
David B. Moser Sr. (Cleveland, GA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

The new version is now out. It is listed at [amount]and runs only on Mac OS 10 and Win XP. Lot of new features.


Recommend 'Starry Night Pro' over all other versions   October 15, 2002
Randolph Scott Keller (Seattle, WA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This program is not just for beginner to serious amateur astronomer. On the contrary, anyone with a computer has desktop access to and detailed information on all that goes on in the sky. The Pro edition is a bargain and has all the features you will want. Don't buy the lesser editions. A new edition coming later this year is relatively pricey. If you want a realistic sky planetarium or information about anything up there at anytime past present or future, get this program. It is absolutely beautiful to view especially if you take the time to set it up with the sky aesthetic that suites you.


Very good!!   August 21, 2002
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

Starry Night Pro is an eccelent program for anyone who wants to know what stars are out, but you can also play with it, like making a new comet or even planet, and making M13 look like a black hole!


Novice? YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!   February 3, 2002
Steve Silverman (Costa Rica)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

Finally, one that WORKS! Set your home location & 24 hrs a day you can enter! Fast frwd clock & get a night view JUST AS YOU'LL SEE IT! Or, if you're into it you can switch to scope (inverted) view of ALL, just planets, satalites, galaxies, whatever, with or w/o local ground light, and ZOOM to view whatever from any object! I've just started, but it's the finest program I've got. Tossed Red Shift (et al), no contest! Sometimes I leave it on just to notice the sky darkening! Zoom, identify, shows moon in phases (and everything), it's all you could ask for!