Customer Reviews

Starry Night Complete Space & Astronomy Pack [Old Version]

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This program came with my astronomy book I bought for my college class. The professor didn't require it's use but recommended it and being that I'm majoring in the subject, HAD to try it out.

It is so awesome! It's easy to use. The graphics are amazing. You learn so much and even if you have no knowledge of the stars or planets and you live somewhere that you can't easliy access a telescope, this is the best program to use to learn more about such an interesting subject.

I have always enjoyed looking up at the night sky but I couldn't identify very many stars or planets. With Starry Night Complete Space & Astronomy Pack I have solved my problem. It will show me what the sky will look like before I go outside. It names the stars that I am trying to locate. In most cases it will even give me the proper pronunciation of each star. I have learned how to go forward or back in time to see what the sky will look like when I'm on my next vacation or what it looked like on the night that I was born. Love the program and recommend it for any amateur astronomer.

Starry Night is the best astronomy program i have ever seen! Starry Night is very easy to use and it has great graphics! Starry night has great pictures of the planets and has a cool spaceship mode allowing you to travel through the universe and visit other galaxies! Definantly a great program for the astronomy beginner!

Starry Night is technically a good product but is not very user friendly in use. Limited view area due to clutter in the page layout limits the useability of the product and the screen area setting of 1024 X 768 pixels required is not very compatible with most older Windows programs. I have to change my screen settings each time I use Starry Night to get the best page layout and then change back again when I leave the program. Several of the programs provided with telescopes are better at providing a much more realistic view of the night sky for star location. Advantages of Starry Night are very current data on satellites, comets and other fleeting phonemena most of which is only visible to observers in very rural areas away from urban light pollution.

Not as good as the old Red Shift software from 1995. This product is cumbersome, not even a little intuitive, and lacks on screen pop-up windows to identify functions of icons. There is a lot of fluff included, but precious little substance. When I emailed the company complaining of the fact that menu items in my edition were non-functional or non-existent I received a luke warm response stating roughly... "too bad". The one and only nice touch is it's ability to track and present major satelites... the rest of the graphics are marginal and clutter the screen.

Bought this as gift for someone who's been into astronomy for awhile. I didn't know much about it; had to rely on the reviews of previous purchasers. She told me it's terrific - no problems computerwise and it does everything it advertises.

Bought it as a present for a 13-year old on his bar-mitzvah. I haven't recieved any comments yet, but I'm considering buying the product for myself.

This package of software and books is a must for those just getting into backyard astronomy. The software, for example, tells you precisely where a sky object -- such as a planet or star -- is in the sky, based on your actual location and time of day. You simply go outside and point your telescope where Starry Night says the object will be and go from there. And that's just the beginning of what the software can do. The entry-level astronomy book that comes with the package is also excellent.

Since year 2001 I was using StarryNight at my live presentation astronomy for amateur class, the audience was so interest with this software. Make me easy to explain to the student how the Sky wonder.
This is great product I met so far, I am glad to introduce this software to my
astronomy Club.

Virgo Rustianto
JTSCOPE Optics (Indonesia)

Great program for the beginning astronomer or hobbyist. It allow me to see and locate my local area stars and planets. .