Starry Night

[Red Kittie Kat]

Starry Night (http://www.space.com/snserver/snweb.php#Req=4&LatD=43&LatM=14.549999999999983&LatRG=N&LonD=73&LonM=50.214&LonRG=W&HH=09&Min=00&AmPm=2&MM=8&DD=27&YY=2007&DST=Yes&SD=Yes&LocMMA=&LabStar=Yes&Lab=Yes&Cons=Yes&Hor=Yes&SG=&PW=410&PH=358&Az=90&FOV=90&Alt=25&Elev=3&LocN=Earth&Explore=No&)


With Starry Night desktop software, you can turn your computer into a virtual planetarium instantly.

- Blast off from any location on Earth.
- Travel within 700 million light years to explore planets and galaxies.
- Follow in the path of famous space missions, such as Voyager and Pioneer.
- Track the progress of the Cassini and New Horizons probes.
- Print star charts for your exact location


Looks pretty kewl :)

[Satchel]

That is pretty cool... I am fascinated with the moon - more so recently!

[Red Kittie Kat]

Yeah I was playing with it a little ... I'll have to play with it more later on :)

[captain spanky]

just reminded me of this...
http://www.reallyslick.com/downloads.html
the skyrocket screen saver is reeeeeeallly cool... :)

[The_Black_Knight]

I have a copy of Starry Night, and it is definitely cool. I've always been interested in astronomy.

There's an open source/freeware application called Celestia, (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/) which I have also heard is very good, if you don't feel like paying for Starry Night (which is a touch pricey). Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I haven't done a feature comparison of the two pieces of software, so I couldn't tell you how different they are.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Oooh... drool...

thud.

That is cool! I can't play now, but perhaps when I'm home!!

[Derfie]

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/stellarium.html

This program is free, I just put on my Mac mini, and it's pretty cool.