Starry Night Enthusiast gives you the freedom and resources to explore the night sky on your computer or with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars. The application features exoplanets modelled as 3D bodies with proper location, size, orbit and planetary textures, and an Universal Search function to explore the universe.
Features:
- Exoplanets & Stars modelled in 3D
- Simple, fast, user-optimized interface
- Full-colour Mosaic All-Sky CCD image of the entire night sky.
- High-resolution OpenGL planetary maps and star-field graphics.
- Calendar, event finder, logbook, light pollution & night vision.
- Enhanced telescope controls, FOV indicators, equipment lists.
- Up to 500 million downloadable stars.
- More than one million galaxies, clusters, deep-sky objects.
- Daily asteroid, comet & satellite updates.
- Add your own celestial objects, build your own star databases.
- Advanced altitude graphing and ephemerides generator.
- Intergalatic one-click "Go-There" viewing.
- 3D particle galaxies.
- SkyGuide interactive multimedia tours.
v7.1 [Dec 25, 2014]
New Features:
- Creating custom databases has been re-enabled. See "File" menu.
- Earth's atmosphere now taken into account when calculating size of Earth's shadow for eclipses. (Thanks Larry!)
Fixed Bugs:
- Sun / 3D stars now respect the Planet Options > Show Atmosphere Edge setting.
- Added option to hide eclipse corona (Planet Options.)
- (Windows) several UI fixes in the Orbit Editor.
- "Magnify" now zooms in to the correct FOV.
- Graph Options menu options now work correctly.
- NGC-IC (and other) database image folders working again.
- Constellation possessive names now correct.
- Several performance enhancements.
- Lots of crashes and smaller fixes.
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