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  • Page 2 Toronto, ON M5A 1P4, Canada www.starrynight.com ©2004 Imaginova Corp. All rights reserved. Starry Night and Imaginova are trademarks of Imaginova Corp. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Apple, Macintosh, Mac, and QuickTime are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Getting Started Welcome ..............7 Outline Of This User’s Guide ........8 Starry Night Companion ..........9 Special Fonts ............... 9 Installing Starry Night Pro 5.0 ........9 Running Starry Night Pro 5.0 ........12 Registering ..............12 Data Updates .............
  • Page 4 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Labeling Celestial Objects ........37 Celestial Object Display Options......38 Star Display Options ..........39 Star Brightness, Contrast & Colour ......41 Planet Display Options..........42 Comet, Asteroid & Satellite Display Options... 44 Messier/Bright NGC/User Images Display Options. 44 Milky Way Display Options ........
  • Page 5 LiveSky.com Object Database........94 Bending Space & Time Time Flow ..............98 Time Flow Modes ............. 99 Local and Celestial Paths ........100 Changing Your Viewing Location......102 Changing Elevation..........104 Location Mode ............106 Orientation .............. 107 Orbits............... 108 Spaceship Mode ............
  • Page 6 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Frequently Asked Questions QuickTime .............. 159 Registration Number ..........160 Installation............... 161 Support ..............161 Updates/Upgrades ........... 161 General Run-Time Problems ........162 OpenGL..............162 Time & Date............163 Viewing Location............ 165 Internet Database & Digitized Sky Survey ..... 166 Printing &...

  • Page 7: Getting Started

    Chapter 1 Getting Started Welcome The invention of desktop astronomy software has been the most exciting new development in the astronomy hobby in years, perhaps since that night four centuries ago when Galileo pointed the newly invented telescope at the heavens for the first time! Starry Night Pro 5.0 is the premier astronomy software package on the market, putting more power and knowledge in your hands...

  • Page 8: Outline Of This User's Guide

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Outline Of This User’s Guide simulations to demonstrate astronomical concepts. All users of Starry Night Pro 5.0 should read chapters 1 and 2 of this User’s Guide Chapter 7: “Special Tools” describes some to get a basic grasp of how to use the of Starry Night Pro 5.0’s astronomy tools program.

  • Page 9: Starry Night Companion

    Getting Started Starry Night Companion 2) File Font: This font indicates a folder or file, either on your hard drive or This User’s Guide will teach you how to the Starry Night Pro 5.0 CD. File and use Starry Night Pro 5.0. The second book folder names are always enclosed in included with your package, Starry Night quotations.
  • Page 10 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Windows: work unless you choose this option. Insert disc 1 in the CD-ROM drive. During the installation process, a window may open which allows you to enter a QuickTime registration number. A window will pop up onscreen with This number is only for a more instructions on installing Starry Night advanced version of QuickTime that is...
  • Page 11 Getting Started At one point in the installation process, Tip: The first time you enlarge an image there will be a screen titled "File Type or play a movie, you may see the Get Associations". Press the File Types QuickTime Pro window. Click Later. You button to edit the associations.

  • Page 12: Running Starry Night Pro 5.0

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide To install Starry Night Pro 5.0 Double-click the Starry Night Macintosh: Macintosh: for the Macintosh, follow these steps. Pro 5.0 icon in the Applications folder, or click the icon on your dock. Insert disc 1 into the CD-ROM drive and double-click on the Starry Night Registering Pro 5.0 installation icon.

  • Page 13: Data Updates

    Getting Started Tip: You can retrieve your registration Only registered users can download the number at any time by choosing updated data files. If you did not register Registration from the Help menu Starry Night Pro 5.0, the following (Windows) or the Starry Night Pro 5.0 window will appear onscreen when you menu (Macintosh).

  • Page 14: Setting Your Home Location

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Setting Your Home Location minutes.You must also enter the correct time zone. Time zones are calculated The first time Starry Night Pro 5.0 runs, a according to the time difference from dialog box opens that asks you to set your London, England.

  • Page 15: Starry Night For The First Time

    Getting Started Tip: If you ever move and need to change The next chapter will show you how to use your location (or if you initially enter your them and become more comfortable with home location incorrectly), choose the program. Set Home Location from the File menu (Windows) or the Starry Night Pro 5.0 Getting Help...

  • Page 16: Program Updates

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide The Starry Night Discussion List: running the most up-to-date version of Discussion List is a newsgroup that allows Starry Night Pro 5.0. you to ask questions and share tips with other owners of Starry Night Pro 5.0. At Starry Night Website press time, the Discussion List had more than 6000 members, so it is an excellent...

  • Page 17: Basics

    Chapter 2 Basics It is impossible to cover all of the features of Starry Night Pro 5.0 in one short chapter. However, you will use certain features much more than others. This chapter will show you how to use the 10 most important features in Starry Night Pro 5.0.

  • Page 18: Using The Controls

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Using The Controls Tip: Clicking the blue pin button on the toolbal will display a menu with All of the controls in Starry Night Pro 5.0 all the log entries you have added to Starry are in three areas of the screen: the toolbar, Night Pro 5.0.
  • Page 19 Basics Button Bar (Windows only): Each of the side panes controls an Windows, the button bar provides an important function in Starry Night Pro 5.0, additional set of controls. The button bar is and is explained in detail in a later section. located under the menu, just above the toolbar.

  • Page 20: Changing Your Viewing Direction

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Changing Your Viewing Direction above the horizon, you may see a red marker. This marker identifies the zenith By default, Starry Night Pro 5.0 always the point in the sky that is directly above opens with your view facing south, your head.

  • Page 21: Identifying Objects In The Sky

    Basics be turned on. Click on the icon to turn on sunset, moonrise or moonset. You can also or off Daylight Saving Time. change to , the time at which the solar noon Sun is highest in the sky, or moon transit “How does Daylight Saving Time the time at which the Moon is highest in...

  • Page 22: Labeling Objects

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Displaying Constellation Figures For thousands of years, stargazers have joined the brighter stars together into patterns that we call constellations. Astronomers currently recognize 88 constellations, which together cover the entire sky. Knowing which constellation an object is in is the first step to finding the object.

  • Page 23: Finding Objects

    Basics Finding Objects If you are interested in finding a specific object, such as a planet or a bright new comet, open the Find side pane. Click in the text box at the top of this pane and type in the first few letters of the object you are looking for.

  • Page 24: Zooming In On Objects

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide pane, and choosing the appropriate Click the symbol to the left database from the menu that appears. of an object’s name to “Object Databases” on page 77 describes expand the list to include all other objects each of the object databases included in that orbit this object.
  • Page 25 Basics toolbar is a set of zoom buttons which closer, your field of view will be shown in adjusts your field of view. . One arcminute is 1/60 of a arcseconds degree, and one arcsecond is 1/60 of an arcminute. The smallest field of view which Starry Night Pro 5.0 can display is 1 arcsecond.
  • Page 26 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide The angular separation measures how far apart in the sky two celestial bodies appear. The entire sky is divided into 360°, so an object which is directly in front of you and an object directly behind you in If you choose Changing the Zoom Step: the sky have an angular separation of...

  • Page 27: Learning More About Objects

    Basics Printing Star Charts 6 arcminutes. Note that Jupiter will still not fill the screen. Starry Night Pro 5.0 has a special set of 6 Press the “+” zoom button to continue print settings which make printing zooming in on Jupiter. Once you reach a informative, legible charts a snap.

  • Page 28: Tool Selection Control

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Tip: If you choose replaces the mouse pointer on your Options->Presets->Print Settings from the computer screen. menu, Starry Night Pro 5.0 will apply its special print settings to your screen view. This allows you to see how a star chart printed with these settings would look.
  • Page 29 Basics anywhere in the window to zoom in that direction. To magnify a specific area of the sky, hold down the mouse button and drag to encompass the area you want magnified. Tip: Holding down the Ctrl key (Windows) or the Option key (Macintosh) while using the Zoom tool zooms you back out.
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  • Page 31: Appearance Of The Sky

    Chapter 3 Appearance of the Sky Unlike the real world, Starry Night Pro 5.0 allows you to modify the sky’s appearance to best suit your needs. You can display illustrations of the classical constellations, show only the artificial satellites circling overhead, or customize your view in dozens of other ways.

  • Page 32: Options Pane

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Options Pane Stars. Controls for objects outside the solar system, but inside the Milky Way. Many of the options for modifying the For example, stars, extrasolar planets, appearance of the sky are in the Options and the appearance of the Milky Way pane.

  • Page 33: Light

    Appearance of the Sky Light Most of the object classes listed in the Options pane have special options Many celestial objects are only visible associated with them. Clicking on the during certain times of the year. At other object name in the pane will open a dialog times in the year, they are above the box with options for that object class.
  • Page 34 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide stars which his or her counterpart in the country will see. Starry Night Pro 5.0 allows you to mimic the effects of light pollution, showing only the brighter stars and making the sky more closely resemble what you see from home.

  • Page 35: Changing The Horizon

    Appearance of the Sky from the main menu, a dialog box with options for changing the horizon appears. Tip: You can also turn on light pollution by right-clicking (Ctrl-click on the Mac) on the background sky in the main window. You can choose from one of Horizon Style: This will open a contextual menu with two...

  • Page 36: Displaying Celestial Objects

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide constellations are about to rise above the If a database is turned off, no objects from horizon. this database will be displayed. However, if a database is turned on, not all of the By default, Starry Night Pro 5.0 objects in the database will be displayed.

  • Page 37: Labeling Celestial Objects

    Appearance of the Sky Labeling Celestial Objects change the label colour for selected objects by choosing Preferences from the “Labeling Objects” on page 22, you File menu (Windows) or the learned how to turn on labels for all types Starry Night Pro 5.0 menu (Macintosh), of objects.

  • Page 38: Celestial Object Display Options

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Celestial Object Display Options displayed onscreen. Moving the slider to the right will display more objects. As mentioned in “Displaying Celestial If this box is checked, only Constrain: Objects” on page 36, clicking on a objects that fall within the database name in the Options pane will apparent...

  • Page 39: Star Display Options

    Appearance of the Sky Many databases have unique options. We Click the words “Limit by Distance” in the will look at these options in the next few Options pane to open a dialog box that lets sections. you set numeric values for limiting by distance or magnitude.
  • Page 40 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide The main Star Additional Star Options: movement of the stars is called proper Options dialog box lets you control how . Starry Night Pro 5.0 lets you motion many stars are displayed and how they are display proper motion vectors, lines that labeled.

  • Page 41: Star Brightness, Contrast & Colour

    Appearance of the Sky Star Brightness, Contrast & Example: Isolating the Hyades Cluster Colour This example will show you how to use Starry Night Pro 5.0 gives you complete the star display options to separate stars in control over the brightness, contrast, and the Hyades cluster from other stars.

  • Page 42: Planet Display Options

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Planet Display Options and dimmest objects in the sky, while the Contrast slider increases or decreases the Starry Night Pro 5.0 gives you many colour distinction between the brightest options for the display of our Sun and its and dimmest objects in the sky.
  • Page 43 Appearance of the Sky You can turn off the Show Atmosphere: Pro 5.0 uses the time-honored tradition of atmospheres of objects that possess an deploying space artists to create the atmosphere, such as the Sun, Venus, and surfaces of distant worlds as seen from Earth.

  • Page 44: Comet, Asteroid & Satellite Display Options

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Comet, Asteroid & Satellite Messier Objects/Bright NGC Display Options Objects/User Images Display Options These databases have a specific image associated with each object. Most of the images from the “Messier” and “Bright NGC Objects” databases were photographed by astronomy enthusiasts.

  • Page 45: Milky Way Display Options

    Appearance of the Sky Milky Way Display Options By default, Starry Night Pro 5.0 displays a stunning photographic image of the band of the Milky Way. If you find this image is too bright, you can use the Brightness slider to tone down the image brightness, or uncheck the Milky Way box in the Options pane, to turn off the image entirely.

  • Page 46: Selecting Filaments And Groups

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide the slider all the way to the right will you have clicked on. Some of the options display all the galaxies in the Tully specific to the Tully Collection are Collection at the same time. described below.

  • Page 47: Other Object Display Options

    Appearance of the Sky Label Options place that group at the centre of your screen. Every database in Starry Night Pro 5.0 has This displays a special Highlight Group: label options. To access these options, marker for all other galaxies that are in the open the Options pane and click on the same group as the object you have clicked name of the database you are interested in.

  • Page 48: Constellations

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide A slider allows you to Constellations Number of Labels: change the number of objects that are People have always joined together labeled onscreen for each database. If the patterns of stars to create images in the slider is near the left edge, only the night sky.
  • Page 49 Appearance of the Sky Checking this box displays Illustrations: classical illustrations for the constellations. Checking this box turns on or off Labels: constellation labels. Turns on or off stick figures Stick Figures: for the constellations. Clicking on the Constellation Options: words “Boundaries”, “Labels”, or “Stick Figures”...

  • Page 50: Guides 1 (Co-Ordinate Systems)

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide You can draw stick describes the options in the Guides layer figures using either that control the display of these co- the standard ordinate systems. astronomical figures, Looking up into the night sky, you can or those popularized imagine that the stars are fixed on the by H.A.
  • Page 51 Appearance of the Sky object is directly overhead. ascension (RA) is defined to be the right Azimuth measures the compass direction of an ascension of the sun at the Vernal Equinox object. An object which is due north in the which is the first day of spring in the sky has an azimuth of 0°, one that is due Northern Hemisphere.

  • Page 52: Guides 2 (Display Options)

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide passing through the constellations of the Recall that all of these options are in the “Guides” layer of the Options pane. zodiac over the course of a year. Because the planets all move in almost the same plane, with the exception of Pluto, they will all be found close to the ecliptic line.
  • Page 53 Appearance of the Sky field of view, the grid spacing will first day of summer (in the Northern automatically change. You can change the Hemisphere), while the Winter Solstice default spacing of these gridlines in the the Sun’s position relative to the stars on Guides Options dialog box.

  • Page 54: Field Of View Indicators 1 (Creating An Equipment List)

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide axes, or both. Finally, you can choose to area shown inside the indicator by Starry highlight the closest objects. This will give Night Pro 5.0 should correspond very well a 3-dimensional view of the position of to what you actually see outdoors when these objects in relation to the co-ordinate you are observing.
  • Page 55 Appearance of the Sky Some of these pieces of equipment may be from the pull-down menu in the upper left unfamiliar to you. corner of the Equipment List dialog box, then press the New button in the lower left • Eyepiece. For any given telescope, you corner.

  • Page 56: Field Of View Indicators 2 (Displaying Indicators)

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide The following information fields need to telescopes, finderscopes and binoculars. be correct: The list will include all of the telescope eyepieces, CCD cameras, finderscopes Telescope: aperture, f/stop and binoculars that you added when you Eyepiece: focal length, apparent field of created your equipment list (see “Field of...
  • Page 57 Appearance of the Sky display indicators is if you are using a To add one of these indicators, click the Add button in the Other (All Charts) or primary telescope and a finderscope. Other (This Chart) layer in the FOV pane. Tip: To change the colour of an FOV The difference between these two layers is indicator, just click on the colourbar to the...

  • Page 58: Flip

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Flip is the horizontal offset and Delta V is the vertical offset (both in pixels). An Another way of indicator with an offset of (0,0) would modifying Starry be directly at the centre of the screen. Night Pro 5.0’s •...

  • Page 59: Opengl Options

    Appearance of the Sky these information fields. If you wish, you can draw each piece of information in the HUD with a different colour. Finally, you can choose the font, style, and size of the text in which the HUD information is displayed.

  • Page 60: Number Formats

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Rather than jumping Cross fade slider: Use prespective correction when straight into a new scene, instantly load a showing planet surfaces: Corrects for new Starry Night File (SNF) or label an prespective when viewing planet surfaces. object, you can add a fade ‘break’...

  • Page 61: White Sky Mode

    Appearance of the Sky White Sky Mode for each of these options using the dropboxes. You learned how to print star charts in • d: degrees “Printing Star Charts” on page 27. Starry • m: minutes Night Pro 5.0 also allows you to simulate printed starcharts on your screen, by •...

  • Page 62: Full Screen Mode

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Saving Your Settings Because of the control Night Vision must exert over your computer display, not all Now that you know all of the features for computers will support it. adjusting the appearance of the sky, you You can adjust the Adjusting brightness: may wish to make some changes to Starry...
  • Page 63 Appearance of the Sky file “Print Settings.sno” in the Save dialog box that opens. This will replace Starry Night Pro 5.0’s default print settings with your own. Certain aspects of Global Preferences. Starry Night Pro 5.0 are treated differently than your appearance settings (which you save by choosing Options->Save Current Options as Default).
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  • Page 65: Sky Data

    Chapter 4 Sky Data This chapter will show you how to use several different Starry Night Pro 5.0 features and functions that teach you more about the night sky and give you more information about astronomical events and the sky in general. In the next chapter, “Object Databases”...

  • Page 66: Skyguide

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide SkyGuide This section highlights some of the main features in SkyGuide. Dozens of interactive multimedia tours await you in the SkyGuide pane. These in- Click on the tab named depth experiences reveal the fascinating SkyGuide to open the science and history of the solar system, the SkyGuide panel.

  • Page 67: Skycalendar

    Sky Data SkyCalendar major categories: A self-running guided The SkyCalendar is your portal to weekly Welcome Tour: astronomical events, solar and lunar introduction to Starry Night and the things eclipses, Moon phases, regional star par- you can do. ties and observation logs. You can also Find a planet, star, constella- Quick Find: import, view and even create your own...
  • Page 68 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide At the top of the SkyCalendar pane is a URL: An Internet link with additional window that lists all the event calendars. information about the event. At the bottom of the pane is a monthly cal- Description: A detailed description of the endar with Moon phase information.
  • Page 69 Sky Data By default Starry date. To enable this option, you must first Night Pro 5.0 lists select "Set current view to date" from the all calendar events. dropbox menu at the bottom of the Moon You can also select phase calendar.

  • Page 70: Dvd Movies

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide An eclipse of the Annular Solar Eclipse: Sun where the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun, but does not completely cover it. At the eclipse's peak, a ring of sunlight still shines around the Moon's edges.

  • Page 71: Livesky Pane

    Sky Data LiveSky Pane information about the image, such as its source and date. Beneath the image Although Starry Night Pro 5.0 has a information are two buttons. wealth of built-in astronomical information, much more information Clicking this button opens exists on the Internet.

  • Page 72: Status Info

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide auroral activity (northern and southern General Information: lights) in Earth’s atmosphere, and satellite imagery of Earth. As more types of live planetary images become available online, links to these images will be added to LiveSky.
  • Page 73 Sky Data This field displays the Universal Time: ascension equal to the sidereal time are of your current view. Universal Time crossing the local meridian at their highest Because of time zones, an astronomical point in the sky, and this is often the best event (such as a lunar occultation) could time to observe the object.
  • Page 74 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide average distance between Earth and the the upper right corner of the H-R diagram. Sun, about 150 000 000 km. Finally, “white dwarf” stars will be found along the bottom left of the H-R diagram, ***Distance from Sun/Angle from Ecliptic beneath the main sequence.

  • Page 75: Downloading Photographic Images

    Sky Data instead of absolute magnitude on the Note: White dwarfs are very dim and few vertical axis. are in Starry Night Pro 5.0’s star catalogues (the Hipparcos/Tycho-2 Checking this option Automatic ranges: catalogues), so few will be found in Starry will cause Starry Night Pro 5.0 to select Night Pro 5.0’s H-R diagrams.

  • Page 76: Online Telescope Imaging

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide assemble your request from its extensive Tip: After you have loaded an image from database. the Digitized Sky Survey, you can paste it in Starry Night Pro, and it will remain Tip: You can only download Digitized Sky there every time you run the program.

  • Page 77: Object Databases

    Chapter 5 Object Databases This chapter will show you how to learn more about galaxies, meteor showers, planets, and all of the other marvelous denizens of the night sky. You will first learn about all of the different object databases included in Starry Night Pro 5.0. Next, you will learn how to get more information about any of the objects in these databases.

  • Page 78: Introduction To Databases

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Introduction to Databases much more rapidly than Earth rotates, so they move over a large slice of the Earth’s Starry Night Pro 5.0 includes literally surface. Geosynchronous satellites are millions of celestial objects, from dozens much farther from Earth.

  • Page 79: Databases 2 (Stars)

    Object Databases greatly with time. Comets are usually far into spheres with diameters of only a few away from the Sun, out beyond the orbit of tens of kilometres. Created by Ulf Teras. Pluto, too dim to see. Once in a long while, A star is any body which burns or Stars: they come close to Earth and the Sun,...

  • Page 80: Databases 3 (Deep Space)

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Night Pro 5.0 allows you to download or another. Many of the objects were portions of this database from the Internet. missed by Messier because they are more “Adding Objects 3 (Stars)” on easily seen from the Southern Hemisphere, page 146 for more information.

  • Page 81: Databases 4 (Other)

    Object Databases files that use this database to render some page 147 for information on building your 3-dimensional extragalactic views of our own databases. universe. Note: The list of databases in your version These Hubble/Chandra/Spitzer Images: of Starry Night Pro 5.0 may not be exactly databases contain about 100 images taken the same as the following list, as we are by space telescopes.
  • Page 82 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide The 28 An alternate Celestron AAM Alignment Stars: Meteor Showers (RASC): alignment stars for Celestron's Advanced meteor shower database with radiant data Astro-Master, a digital setting circle from the Royal Astronomical Society device. Created by Greg Miller. Observer's Handbook.

  • Page 83: Database Updates

    Object Databases http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/ The databases of comets, asteroids and to learn more about this catalogue. satellites change more frequently than other databases, so Starry Night Pro 5.0 The Uppsala General catalogue of UGC: has a special method of updating these 13 000 galaxies, converted into Starry databases.
  • Page 84 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide will take to load when you start the for information on downloading star data program. You would only want to modify from the Internet. the default values for these fields if you Note: It is also possible to manually have manually created larger comet, modify the comet, asteroid &...

  • Page 85: Find Pane Info

    Object Databases Find Pane Info “Adding Log Entries” on page 135 for more information about adding log entries. “Finding Objects” on page 23, you The object’s height above the Altitude: learned that typing in a search for an horizon. If the object has a negative object produced a list of items found.

  • Page 86: Object Contextual Menu

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Object Contextual Menu This selects or deselects Select/Deselect: the object. If an object is selected, its name An object’s contextual menu provides a and an arrow pointing to the object will list of actions in Starry Night Pro 5.0 that appear onscreen.
  • Page 87 Object Databases This adds a new field Add FOV Indicator: Starry Night Pro 5.0. See of view (FOV) indicator, centred on the “Changing Your Viewing Location” on object. See “Adding other indicators” on page 102 for more information. However, page 57 for more information. the contextual menu is the way to only...

  • Page 88: Info Pane

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide New Asteroid/New Comet/New Satellite/ unchecking this option in the Moon’s All of these options Add Moon Orbiting... contextual menu, the Moon will always be allow you to add a new object using the drawn at its correct size, but it will be too Orbit Editor.
  • Page 89 Object Databases The Info pane provides information, while the Greek alphabet), the second brightest the contextual menu lists possible actions. is named Beta, and so on. Only relatively bright stars have Bayer letters. Some of the fields in the Info pane are For stars only, this gives Flamsteed/Other: common for all objects, while some fields...
  • Page 90 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide highest in the sky. At its transit time, an • Position in Sky object will be due south in the sky (if you are viewing from the Northern Hemisphere), or due north (if you are viewing from the Southern Hemisphere).
  • Page 91 Object Databases This indicates whether a star’s Variability: star is, the more accurate its distance apparent magnitude (and, therefore, its measurement is likely to be. The distances brightness) varies with time, and by how to stars within a few hundred light years much.
  • Page 92 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide the dog star Sirius, which has a magnitude colour is directly related to its of -1.47. The magnitudes of the planets temperature: blue stars are hotter and red change, depending on how close they are stars are cooler.
  • Page 93 Object Databases The tilt of the Extrasolar inclination: number of days that have passed since the planet’s orbit, relative to our viewing Moon was last new. position on Earth. The radius of the orbit that the Orbit Size: object makes around its parent body. Note: This is a different definition of inclination than is used for objects within This measures the angular...

  • Page 94: Livesky.com Object Database

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide LiveSky.com button in the object’s Info planet’s year. On Earth, the time periods are almost identical, with the 24 hour solar pane. This will bring up a page on LiveSky day being only four mintes longer than the which has a listing of web resources with sidereal day.
  • Page 95 Object Databases Clicking this link HEASARC Astrobrowse: will search dozens of astronomy databases for information on your object. A new window will open with each database being searched listed on the left side. When the search for that database has been completed, a green “happy-face”...
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  • Page 97: Bending Space & Time

    Chapter 6 Bending Space & Time This chapter will show you how to take full advantage of Starry Night Pro 5.0’s planetarium capabilities. You will learn how to start, stop, speed up and slow down the flow of time, and change your location to view from anywhere on or off the surface of Earth - you’ll even fly a spaceship! Several examples will help you master...

  • Page 98: Time Flow

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Time Flow (i.e. 30x) simply advance the time in Starry Night Pro 5.0 at a rate equal to a By default, time in Starry Night Pro 5.0 multiple of the real rate of time flow. For advances at the same rate as real time.

  • Page 99: Time Flow Modes

    Bending Space & Time than the month we are familiar with (the lunar month), again due to the revolution of Earth around the Sun. This is the time interval Lunar month: between two full moons, as seen on Earth. It is about 29 1/2 days. Customizing Time Steps: You are not limited to the choice of time steps...

  • Page 100: Local And Celestial Paths

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Freezes time at the current Local and Celestial Paths Stop: value. Objects in our solar system move over Runs time forward Forward (Play): time, relative to the background stars and continuously. Each time the screen is galaxies.
  • Page 101 Bending Space & Time By choosing Path Options: Example: The Retrograde Motion of Mars Options->Path Options from the main menu, you can customize the way Starry In this example we’ll display the celestial Night Pro 5.0 displays local and celestial path of Mars over a few months as seen paths.

  • Page 102: Changing Your Viewing Location

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Changing Your Viewing Location Click anywhere on the world map to Map: make this area your new viewing location. For every different location on earth, the night sky reveals a unique face. Australians never lay eyes on the North Star, while stargazers in the northern latitudes find the nearby galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds forever hidden...
  • Page 103 Bending Space & Time To view Viewing From Other Planets: To view from this location in the future, from another planet or moon, open the just click on the List tab of the Viewing Viewing Location window and click the Location dialog box, and select your List tab.

  • Page 104: Changing Elevation

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Tip: The list of locations for the Moon As you change includes not only craters and other elevation, the prominent gelogical features, but also the location sites of all the Apollo landings! information in the toolbar will update to show how high You can Viewing From Stars or Galaxies:...
  • Page 105 Bending Space & Time menu (Macintosh) and choose is like changing the direction of this pole, Responsiveness from the dropbox in the so that it now protrudes from the planet’s upper left corner of the Preferences dialog surface in a different spot. You are still at box.

  • Page 106: Location Mode

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Options 6 Return home by opening the example, assume you want to see how a menu and clicking on the name of your comet will move relative to the fixed stars home city. over a night. Placing yourself at Earth’s centre allows you to watch the comet’s Location Mode actual motion and ignore the effects of...

  • Page 107: Orientation

    Bending Space & Time forward for six months, you will end up fixed point in space. Using the elevation viewing the dark side of Earth, because controls, rise above a planet and then Earth has moved 180° around the Sun, but switch to a fixed heliocentric location.

  • Page 108: Orbits

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Orbits your orientation is no longer obvious — the points directly above and below you For any body in the solar system, Starry are not fixed. You could mimic the local Night Pro 5.0 allows you to draw the orbit orientation by pointing your feet at your of this body onscreen.
  • Page 109 Bending Space & Time You can adjust the Orbit brightness: This image shows the orbit of Jupiter. Key brightness of object orbits by choosing points in the orbit are marked with special Preferences from the File menu (Windows) indicators. or the Starry Night Pro 5.0 menu (Macintosh), and selecting Brightness/ Contrast from the dropbox in the upper left corner of the Preferences dialog box.

  • Page 110: Spaceship Mode

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Spaceship Mode are actually planets, as you will see in a minute. Plug-in your joystick— Ctrl 5 Right-click on the Sun ( -click on the or use your keyboard Mac) and choose Centre from the contex- controls—to fly an intergalactic spaceship tual menu.

  • Page 111: Piloting The Spaceship

    Bending Space & Time all-greater than the speed of light. Your keypad, you can use the following alterna- speed is also shown in a numerical format tive commands: beneath the two gauges. It is given in km/s Accelerate: A for sublight speeds or units of 'c', which is Decelerate: Z the speed of light.
  • Page 112 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide many galaxies due to obscuration of the If you want to fly towards a specific distant galaxies by dust. space object, first use the Find pane to centre on that object. You can then turn 6 Press the Spaceship button and freely navigate through the galaxies in the Tully spaceship mode on and fly directly...

  • Page 113: Special Tools

    Chapter 7 Special Tools Ths chapter is a “grab bag” that covers a handful of features in Starry Night Pro 5.0 that go beyond the planetarium aspects of the program. You will learn about the following four features: Telescope Control. Observation Planner.

  • Page 114: Telescope Control

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Telescope Control selecting to install telescope support during the installation of Starry Night Pro If you have an automated “go-to” 5.0. Macintosh users do not need to install telescope, you can probably use Starry a separate driver, as telescope control is Night Pro 5.0 to control your telescope.
  • Page 115 Special Tools The first step Connecting Your Telescope: showing onscreen, use Starry Night Pro in controlling your telescope with Starry 5.0 to slew to an object that is easy to Night Pro 5.0 is turning your telescope on recognize, such as a bright star (see the and aligning it properly.

  • Page 116: Observation Planner

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Observation Planner Click the Adding Specific Objects: Edit button to open a new window which The Observation Planner is a tool that you lets you add objects to the observing list. can use to help plan a night of observing. The Planner lets you create a list of If you are interested in viewing a specific astronomical objects that you wish to...
  • Page 117 Special Tools steps as many times as you want to build “Field of View Indicators 1 (Creating an up your list of objects. Press the Equipment List)” on page 54 for Show Session Items button to show all of information on creating an equipment list. the objects in your list.
  • Page 118 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide You can use the graph’s plot to help you more information on the observing log find the best time to view your object. feature. Ideally, you will be able to find a time If you do not Printing the Planner List: when your object has a high altitude, while have a laptop that lets you run Starry Night...

  • Page 119: Graph

    Special Tools Graph Graph Menu: The Graph offers a way of examining Right-clicking changes in an object’s qualities over time. anywhere in the Graph The horizontal axis of the Graph always opens the Graph plots time, while the vertical axis can plot contextual menu.
  • Page 120 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide magnitude of an asteroid or comet to useful to see phenomena such as the determine when it will be at its brightest. change in an object’s apparent magnitude. Plots the object’s distance from Clicking this option in the Distance: Graph Options: you current position.

  • Page 121: Ephemeris Generator

    Special Tools Ephemeris Generator The ephemeris generator window has the following set of controls. You’ll always know where and when to This allows you to enter a Start/End Time: look with Starry Night’s built-in ephemeris start and stop date/time for the ephemeris generator.
  • Page 122 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide 1 Open the Find side pane. 2 Click in the text box at the top of this pane and type in Saturn. 3 Double-click on Saturn’s name in the list to center on Saturn. If a dialog box shows that Saturn is beneath the horizon, choose View->Hide Horizon.

  • Page 123: Working With Files

    Chapter 8 Working With Files In this chapter you will learn about the different types of files you can create with Starry Night Pro 5.0. We’ll look at five types of files: Dynamic files that you Starry Night Pro 5.0 files: open with Starry Night Pro 5.0 to recreate a particular view or celestial event.

  • Page 124: What Is A Starry Night Pro 5.0 File

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide What is a Starry Night Pro 5.0 File Features File? Most of the features A Starry Night Pro 5.0 file allows you to for working with recreate all the conditions which you used files are in the File in the program to see a particular celestial menu.

  • Page 125: The Favourites Menu

    Working With Files If you are already running a file Save As: warnings by choosing Preferences from that was previously saved, this saves the the File menu (Windows) or the Starry file under a different name and changes the Night Pro 5.0 menu (Macintosh), active window to this file.

  • Page 126: Creating Files - An Example

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide It is Customizing the Favourites Menu: File->Save 8 To save your work, select Name the file possible to customize the Favourites menu “ ” and save it Eclipse from Munich by adding your own files or modifying the in the directory of your choice.

  • Page 127: Multiple Windows

    Working With Files Multiple Windows “ ” window Eclipse from Munich that you previously created. One of the most useful features of Starry 4 In the “ ” Eclipse from Moon Night Pro 5.0 is its ability to have multiple Find window, open the pane, and type in a...

  • Page 128: Exporting Images

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide about 1 ° . Adjust your view so that Europe is near the centre of the screen. You should see a tiny black spot in the centre of the shadow. This is the umbra marking the area on Earth which is experiencing a total solar eclipse.

  • Page 129: Making Movies

    Working With Files Making Movies You can make spectacular movies using Starry Night Pro 5.0. You can record a graphically intensive event (such as a planet flyby) and play it back as a smooth animated sequence. Movies are played back using the QuickTime viewer, so you can send them to your friends and colleagues.

  • Page 130: Movie Compression Settings

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide The Stop button completes the recording process, and closes the QuickTime window. The Record button resumes the recording of a movie after it has been paused. The number of frames in your movie and the total running time are shown in the bottom right corner.

  • Page 131: Playing Back Quicktime Movies

    Working With Files • Quality: The slider lets you adjust the share this file with your friends. And quality of the recording. The better the unlike receiving a 2-dimensional flat quality, the larger the file size. image that only shows a static portion of the sky, your friends will be able to move •...

  • Page 132: Quicktime Vr Movie Settings

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Save As Mac) on it and then select size. You can adjust the QuickTime VR QuickTime VR. settings to keep your files down to a manageable size. To change your QuickTime VR settings, select Preferences from the File menu (Windows) or the Starry Night Pro 5.0 menu (Macintosh) and choose QuickTime from the dropbox on the upper left of the...
  • Page 133 Working With Files controls and filters to create datasets for Proper motion in the right ascension almost anything you can think of. A few direction (milliarcseconds/year) examples: Star variability (0 means the star is not variable, 1 means that the star varies by All stars within 100 light years of less than 0.06 magnitudes, 2 means that Earth.
  • Page 134 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide For objects in the “Messier” database, “Bright NGC Objects” database, or custom images: Catalogue number Name Right ascension (J2000 co-ordinates) Declination (J2000 co-ordinates) Type of object Apparent magnitude Diameter (arcminutes) First alternate name or catalogue number Second alternate name or catalogue number...

  • Page 135: Adding Your Own Data

    Chapter 9 Adding Your Own Data This chapter describes how you can expand the vast library of data that is built into Starry Night Pro 5.0, by adding your own data, or data from other sources, such as the Internet. Adding Log Entries Many astronomers like to keep a record of their observations of celestial objects.
  • Page 136 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide To add a new Creating a new log entry: Night Pro 5.0 assumes that you will be log entry for an object, use Starry Night adding these log entries while you are Pro 5.0 to bring the object onscreen, then observing, so the log entry’s date, time, right-click on it and viewing location are automatically set...

  • Page 137: Adding Calendar Events

    Adding Your Own Data To add an image, click the “+” A special symbol will be displayed on button at the bottom. This allows screen for all objects that have log you to select the appropriate image file entries. from your hard drive. It is possible to add To delete a log entry Deleting log entries: more than one image to a log entry.
  • Page 138 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Select Create from the dropbox on the upper left of the dialog and fill in the Calendar name and description. To add your calendar press the Ok button. Your Tip: ou can also save a Starry Night file calendar should now be listed in the as an event to any calendar by selecting calendar window.

  • Page 139: Adding Objects 1 (Solar System Objects)

    Adding Your Own Data After you have selected the calendar file, click the Ok button to save the calendar and add it to your list. To edit a Editing calendars and events: calendar or an event, double click on its name.
  • Page 140 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide clear what each particular orbital element means, and how the orbit is affected when adjustments are made. To add a new object, first locate the parent body of your new object, either onscreen or using the Find pane. The parent body is the celestial object which your new object the type of object (planet, comet, moon, will revolve around.
  • Page 141 Adding Your Own Data object at a specific point on this orbit at given in units of AU (astronomical one moment in time. Kepler’s laws of units). For objects in orbit about the motion allow Starry Night Pro 5.0 to Sun, such as comets, pericentre calculate the new object’s position in its distance is also called...
  • Page 142 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide The near- Element Style (Near-Circular): is the parent body’s equatorial plane. In circular style is usually used to specify the this case, if the object’s orbit lies in this orbital elements of planets, asteroids, and plane, the inclination is 0°, and the planetoids.
  • Page 143 Adding Your Own Data NASA Element Style (NASA Two Line): reference plane is the equatorial plane of Two Line Elements (TLE’s) are often used the object’s parent body. An astronomical to describe the orbit of Earth-orbiting reference plane is dependent upon the time artificial satellites.
  • Page 144 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide On this tab, you can create a Surface Tab: images can give you an idea of how an surface for your new object by importing object’s map relates to the appearance of an image file or pasting in information. the planet.
  • Page 145 Adding Your Own Data Sets the rate at which the Rotation Rate: If you now open the Find pane and clear new object spins on its axis. the text box, you will see your new object listed in its appropriate place among the Over time, many Tidal Lock With Parent: other solar system objects.

  • Page 146: Adding Objects 2 (Multiple Solar System Objects)

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide underneath Jupiter. You can now centre on added to these files. Editing these data Planet X, turn on its orbit, or perform any files is only recommended if you want to of the other functions you can do with add a large number of objects.

  • Page 147: Adding Objects 4 (Databases)

    Adding Your Own Data files are now a permanent part of your Run Starry Night Pro 5.0 and choose File->Build Data File from the menu. A database, and will be present every time you run Starry Night Pro 5.0 in the dialog box will open that prompts you future.

  • Page 148: User Images

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Database Format Examples: size. See the "NGC-IC.txt" file for "Extras\Database Examples" more details. folder on the Starry Night Pro 5.0 CD For each type of object in Object Symbols: contains several sample text files. Each your database, Starry Night Pro 5.0 can file is in the proper format for Starry Night show a different symbol onscreen, in the...
  • Page 149 Adding Your Own Data the object or area of the sky where you clipboard. Once you have selected the image, press OK and your image will be want to add your image. For example, assume you want to add an image of pasted into the Image Editor window.
  • Page 150 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Click the From DSS button. Starry brightness of an image. If you have an overexposed image, placing it into Night Pro 5.0 will begin downloading Starry Night Pro 5.0 will often result in the DSS image. This may take a few an unattractive, “boxy”...
  • Page 151 Adding Your Own Data Image Editor Controls: celestial need to use these zoom buttons to see the is an imaginary globe that encloses sphere full extent of your image. Earth. We can imagine that all the stars, All images that Accessing Your Images: planets, and other celestial objects are you add go into a new database called...

  • Page 152: Modifying Images

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Modifying Images have forgotten which objects are included in these databases): It is possible to replace any of the built-in images in Starry Night Pro 5.0 with Right-click (Ctrl-click on the Mac) on images of your own. The images you can the object whose image you want to replace fall into two categories: objects in replace.

  • Page 153: Photorealistic Horizons

    Adding Your Own Data Photorealistic Horizons Choose Edit->Edit Custom Horizon from the main menu. One of the exciting features of Starry Night Pro is the ability to simulate your local landscape by adding 360 degree photos of your own backyard and favorite observing sites.
  • Page 154 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide in Starry Night Pro 5.0, exactly as if you were creating a new file (see “Creating Files - An Example” on page 126 if you are not familiar with creating Starry Night Pro 5.0 files). Then choose Favourites->Add Favourite from the main menu.

  • Page 155: Custom Asterisms

    Adding Your Own Data Custom Asterisms position in the sky of the asterism's centre, and each of the lines between stars that Different cultures see the stars in different define the shape and size of this asterism. ways, joining them together to form recognizable patterns.
  • Page 156 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Tip: If you have the space on your hard “Satellites.txt”, “Comets.txt”, drive, the simplest way to back up your and “Asteroids.txt”, all in the “Sky data is just to back up the entire Data” folder. “Starry Night Pro 5.0”...
  • Page 157 Adding Your Own Data photorealistic horizon panoramas are saved in the “Sky Data\Horizon Panoramas” folder. These files are Custom “Favourites” Files: stored in the “Sky Data\Go” folder. New asterism sets are Custom Asterisms: stored in the “Sky Data\Asterisms” folder. Log entries are stored Object Log Entries: in the “Prefs\Logs”...
  • Page 158 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide...

  • Page 159: Frequently Asked Questions

    Appendix A Frequently Asked Questions This section answers the most common questions about Starry Night Pro 5.0. The most up to date version of this FAQ is available online by choosing Help->Online Help from the Starry Night Pro 5.0 menu. The web version of the FAQ is especially useful for websites mentioned on this page.

  • Page 160: Registration Number

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Registration Number When I install QuickTime, what type of installation should I choose? How do I register my copy of Starry Night Pro 5.0? You should choose the "Recommended Install" option, as the moviemaking and We encourage you to register by visiting image exporting features in Starry Night our online registration page:...

  • Page 161: Installation

    Frequently Asked Questions Support the registration number you obtained online. My questions aren't answered in the manual or this FAQ. Who can I Installation contact? I already have a version of Starry Night You can contact us at http:// on my computer. Do I need to remove www.starrynight.com/support.

  • Page 162: General Run-Time Problems

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Bug fixes and minor feature updates to Some of Starry Night Pro 5.0’s controls Starry Night Pro 5.0 will be available as appear to be missing (or are not drawn free Internet downloads to existing properly).

  • Page 163: Time & Date

    Frequently Asked Questions What differences will I see if I run I'm getting an error message when I Starry Night Pro 5.0 on an OpenGL turn OpenGL on. What should I do? compatible graphics card? This can happen if you are using an older Starry Night Pro 5.0 will run much faster video driver.
  • Page 164 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide How do I find my time zone? Saving Time if you change the date from within the program. For example, let's say Time zones are in relation to London, you open the program in June. Starry England.

  • Page 165: Viewing Location

    Frequently Asked Questions Can I get Starry Night to show dates in Does Starry Night use the Gregorian or the European format? Julian calendar for old dates? Yes. On Windows, Starry Night looks to Starry Night uses the old Julian calendar the Windows registry to determine the for all dates before Oct.

  • Page 166: Internet Database & Digitized Sky Survey

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide My city isn’t in the list of cities in Starry If you want to use Netscape, you must Night’s Viewing Location dialog box, make it your default browser. Learn how and I don’t know my latitude and to do this for Macintosh: http:// longitude.

  • Page 167: Telescopes

    Frequently Asked Questions as Internet Explorer and choose File->Print the QuickTime Movie Preferences to print out a colour image. button. The "Compression Settings" window which opens allows you to Can I print star charts showing the modify the compression settings. The top whole sky? dropbox in this window is the compression method.

  • Page 168: Solar System Bodies

    Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Solar System Bodies step in the toolbar to a discrete step of 1 day and press the Forward button in the How do I see the phases of the Moon? time mode controls to run time forward and watch the Sun move through the Open the Find pane and double-click on Zodiac.

  • Page 169: Stars

    Frequently Asked Questions and planets in ways that can't be predicted Why doesn't the location of the by Starry Night. The gas and dust released International Space Station match what by the comet as it gets closer to the Sun I see in the sky? also causes the orbit of the comet you are The orbital elements of artificial satellites...
  • Page 170 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide about 100 000 stars from the Hipparcos catalogue. Most of the stars in this catalogue are within a few hundred light years of the sun, so as you zoom out farther than this, they appear to cluster around the Sun.

  • Page 171: Keyboard Shortcuts

    Appendix B Keyboard Shortcuts Use these keyboard shortcuts to quickly access features you use frequently. Keyboard Function Windows Macintosh File Menu (some commands are in the Starry Night Pro 5.0 menu on the Mac) Ctrl-N Cmd-N Open Ctrl-O Cmd-O Close Alt-F4 Cmd-W Save...
  • Page 172 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Keyboard Function Windows and Macintosh Direction Changes Face North Face East Face South Face West Face Zenith Zoom in and out Move left, right, up or down Arrow keys Time Controls Minute forward Minute back Shift-T Hour forward Hour back...

  • Page 173: Index

    Index Adaptive hand tool 29 Adding databases 147 images 148 objects 139 Altitude 50 Angular separation 26 Animating location changes 103 Apparent magnitude 91 Argument of pericentre 141 Ascending node 109, 141 ASCOM 114 Asterisms 48 creating 155 Asteroids 78 adding multiple 146 updating data 83 Azimuth 51...
  • Page 174 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide building your own 147 descriptions 78 Calendar display options 38 Gregorian, Julian 165 formats for building 148 Celestial equator 51 limiting by magnitude 38 Celestial paths 100 other 81 Celestron turning labels on/off 37 AAM alignment stars 82 turning on/off 36 Nexstar database 82...
  • Page 175 types of equipment 54 Exporting sky data 132 Galaxies 80 Extrasolar planets local group 82 information fields 92 UGC 83 marking stars with 39 viewing from 86 Galaxy Filaments 46 Galaxy Groups 46 Graph 119 Favourites adding objects 119 adding new files or folders 153 deleting objects 120 customizing menu 153 menu options 119...
  • Page 176 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide adding from DSS 150 accessing live images 71 adding to log entries 136 downloading updated images 71 adjusting brightness 44 object database 94 creating 128 pane 71 importing 148 types of images 71 Importing images 148 LiveSky.com 94 Inclination 141 Local meridian 51...
  • Page 177 Milky Way panning to 23 adjusting brightness 45 rise/transit/set times 89 Moon selecting 28, 86 age 93 text descriptions 90 cast shadows 43 turning labels on/off 37 enlarging 88 turning on/off 36 phases 93, 168 Observation planner 116 Moon phase calendar 21 OpenGL Moons compatibility issues 162...
  • Page 178 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide Planetary nebulae 82 Planets Quasars 80 angular size 93 Quick Start User Card 9 disc illumination 93 QuickTime display options 42 installation problems 159 displaying atmosphere 43 installing 10 displaying orbits 108 registration number 10 extrasolar 92 QuickTime VR 131 fly-bys 107...
  • Page 179 creating a calendar 137 downloading from Internet 146 deleting 139 Flamsteed number 89 editing 139 going to 86 importing 138 information 91 Moon phase calendar 69 label options 48 opening 67 limiting by distance 39 searching 69 limiting by magnitude 39 viewing 68 luminosity 92 SkyGuide 66...
  • Page 180 Starry Night Pro 5.0 User’s Guide sidereal 73 system, setting correctly 163 universal 73 using 24-hour clock 164 Time zone, finding 164 Toolbar 18 Tully 3-D database 80 display options 45 filaments and groups 46 Two-line elements 143 Universal time, determining 73 Updates databases 83 program 16...

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