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Starry Night Pro Plus

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Starry Night Pro Plus 6.3 has never been better. So don't delay, get the new version today!

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.

Exclusive to Pro Plus:

Zoom in on full-color AllSky CCD image mosaic of the entire night sky to a limiting magnitude of 14-15, mapped precisely to Starry Night's databases
AllSky CCD image loads 20X faster in DDS texture format (additional 6 GB of hard drive space needed)
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)

New Features for Version 6.2:

New Appulse Event Searching alerts you when the Moon is near bright planets
New Apollo Space Missions feature lets you explore the trajectories of the Apollo spacecraft not available anywhere else!
10 New Earth Horizon Panoramas let you observe from a mountain top, the shores of the Dead Sea, a Winter Star Party and more
65 New 3-D Asteroid Models let you explore these intriguing celestial bodies
New Paleogeographic Earth Maps let you travel back in time to Earth's distant past
New Meteor Showers Update makes your meteor shower observations even better
New Extrasolar Planets Update helps you learn even more about planets beyond our Solar System
New Equipment Database Update means you can use the software with a growing list of equipment
Extended Constellation Descriptions provide more detailed information on all 88 constellations
Smooth Window Fading (Win XP, Vista) and Transparent Floating Windows (Vista) will enhance your experience

Other 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
Recognize 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
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)

And much more:

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

Starry Night Pro Plus version 6.3 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