by Imaginova
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Starry Night Enthusiast is brilliantly realistic and designed for anyone with an interest in the night sky. See the sky from anywhere on Earth or lift off and visit any solar system body or any location up to 20,000 light years away. View 2,500,000 stars along with 170+ deep-space objects like galaxies, star clusters and nebulae. Travel 15,000 years in time. Check out the view from the International Space Station. See planets up close from one of any of their moons. Starry Night Enthusiast has stunning OpenGL graphics. Now with more than 2.5 hours of video multimedia on CD-ROM and new bonus DVD featuring dramatic visualizations of astronomical objects and phenomena hosted by guest experts. Print handy star charts to explore outside. Learn about the movement of the planets, watch the phases of the moon and see what the stars looked like on the day you were born!
Features:
- View the sky from anywhere on Earth
- New weekly sky-gazing suggestions
- Blast off and visit any solar system body, or any location up to 20,000 light years away
- Learn how to identify planets, stars and constellations such as The Big Dipper
- LiveSky panel lets you see up-to-date images of the Sun and Earth from ground and space-based observatories
- Locate objects easily with Find command
- Create your own movies and images
- Print detailed star charts for your next outing under the stars
- Multiple views lets you watch an eclipse from a planet, its moon and the Sun, all at the same time
- More than 2.5 hours of movies, on both CD-ROM and bonus DVD, on the solar system and beyond