Starry Sky Stacker: A basic image stacking program. When you want simple and straight forward, this is it. INDIGO to Go: Mac OS and iOA monitor for all INDIGO based applications from CloudMakers. Collimation Aid: A collimation overlay to aid in collimation of a telescope. Recently updated to 64-bit, should run everywhere now. Mac OS X Dashboard Widget Description. Whether at home or at work, keep Starry Night astronomy software at your fingertips. Faster than a shooting star, the Starry Night Widget will bring the sky for any location to your Macintosh OS X Dashboard in an instant. Because the night sky appears to move from our vantage point on Earth, capturing a long exposure starry sky image on a fixed tripod may reveal star-trailing. One of the best ways to combat star-trailing when capturing astrophotography images on a stationary (non-tracking) tripod mount, is to use the 500 Rule.
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Nearly everyone can identify the Big Dipper, and possibly Orion, in the night sky. But if asked to point to a constellation such as Cygnus or Cassiopeia, most of us would probably just shrug. Imaginova’s Starry Night Enthusiast 5.0 places the sky at your fingertips, making learning the constellations fun and easy.
SkyGuide, the most notable new feature, uses a series of simple text and illustration lessons to teach you how to measure angular distances along the dome of the sky with your hands and fingers, and how to use the Big Dipper’s stars as pointers to other stars and constellations. To begin using the program, you select a viewing location from a list of cities, towns, and other landmarks. Using Night Sky Tours, you view your night sky as it appears throughout the year. The program prints star charts that you can easily transport for quick studies and outdoor stargazing.
Bundled with a 104-minute DVD, SkyTheater, and the 192-page Starry Night Companion illustrated book, Starry Night Enthusiast delivers a personal planetarium. You can view the sky from different locations, as it appeared in the past, and as it will look in the future. By selecting different rates of time flow, you can watch the sky go through daily, seasonal, and even millennial changes. For example, if you set the viewing rate to one day per time step, the planets appear to sweep across the constellations of the zodiac.
Sky Survey The ultimate planetarium is the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, a set of images covering the entire sky taken with professional telescopes. The printed version is extremely expensive but it has now been digitized and is available in 10x compressed form on the Web from STScI and NASA and in 100x compressed form on 10 CDROMs from ASP.
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SkyGuide’s Quick Find feature lets you travel through interstellar space while Starry Night displays the galaxies in 3-D. Cruising through the Virgo Cluster, which is densely packed with constellations, is especially spectacular.
The program’s Spaceship mode allows you to cruise, at speeds of up to 50 million light-years per second, to any of 28,000 distant galaxies, but it’s difficult to master, as are Starry Night’s other manual navigational controls. And the program’s display options, which control the brightness of stars, rendering of planetary surface detail, and display of planets’ and moons’ orbital paths, are complicated by an unfriendly interface that makes finding a specific setting difficult.
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Imaginova released version 5.0 prematurely; a number of annoying bugs mar the program. It installs in your Mac OS X root folder rather than in the Applications folder, for example, and you have to eject the installation discs manually. Cursor behavior is erratic: the cursor’s shape (arrow, hand, resizing tool, and so on) doesn’t change correspondingly as the mouse moves over different types of objects in the user interface. On-screen text is sometimes cut off and therefore unreadable. And the program occasionally leaves you stuck staring into a vast star field—doing a 180-degree turn to fix the point of view is not always easy to manage. Version 5.0.1, which Imaginova says will address these problems, should be available by the time you read this.
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The Pro version of Starry Night 5.0 offers extensive astronomical databases and can automatically aim digitally controlled physical telescopes at selected viewing targets such as planets and moons. While serious astronomy buffs may find that advanced features such as these are useful, Starry Night Enthusiast will satisfy casual stargazers.
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Both Starry Night versions, Enthusiast and Pro, offer a wealth of astronomical information, including the lengthy bundled DVD and illustrated book. Once the bugs are fixed, this appealing program will be the perfect ticket to a voyage into any night sky.