Starry Night Store

Here's what you get when you purchase the full version of Starry Night Digital Download Version 6:

Starry Night Digital Download 6 Core Application (~39 MB Win / ~18 MB Mac)
The base application lets you print star charts, view all stars visible from earth, and tour the universe.

NEW for Version 6!
More Space Missions (~35 MB Win / ~11 MB Mac)
Ride along with New Horizons, Mars Odyssey and more.

NEW for Version 6!
3-D Moons, Asteroids and Satellites (~59 MB Win / ~35 MB Mac)
View realistic 3-D models of asteroids and planetary moons.

NEW for Version 6!
Apollo Landings Horizon Panoramas (~91 MB Win / ~67 MB Mac)
Walk in the footsteps of Apollo astronauts with over 10 panoramas of actual Apollo landing sites.

NEW for Version 6!
More Earth & Mars Horizon Panoramas (~218 MB Win / ~194 MB Mac)
You are there with over 20 Earth panoramas and Mars panorama captured by the Spirit Rover.

NEW for Version 6!
Pronunciations & Sounds (~44 MB Win / ~19 MB Mac)
Hear the correct pronunciation of over 500 celestial objects. Ambient sounds included.

SkyGuide Data Module (~38 MB Win / ~14 MB Mac)
Never be "lost in space" again with over 70 interactive sky-watching and astronomy tutorials on how to locate planets, constellations and other stellar sights and much more. It's like hiring your own personal astronomer.

3-D Galaxies Data Module (~42 MB Win / ~18 MB Mac)
Maneuver around a 3-D universe created using the exclusive Tully database with 3-D positions of 28,000 galaxies. Increase your deep-space explorations from 20,000 light years to 700 million light years of the Sun.

Constellation Illustrations Data Module (~45 MB Win / ~20 MB Mac)
Created exclusively for Starry Night, see what the ancients did with these high-resolution illustrations depicting the constellations.

Dim Stars Data Module (~80 MB Win / ~56 MB Mac)
1 million stars (from magnitude 7 to 11) visible with binoculars or telescopes from the Hipparcos Tycho database.

Horizon Panoramas Data Module (~149 MB Win / ~124 MB Mac)
You are there with these photo-realistic high-resolution horizon panoramas for Earth, most planets and several moons.

Image & Object Database Data Module (~63 MB Win / ~39 MB Mac)
Explore 13,000 deep-sky objects from NGC-IC catalog, the best of the hi-res images from Hubble Space Telescope (33), Chandra X-Ray Observatory (52) and Spitzer Space Telescope (9) and Messier images.

Space Missions & Probes Data Module (~28 MB Win / ~4 MB Mac)
Follow the actual path of a space probe's orbit through the solar system. 3-D models of probes included.

Starry Night Companion Module (~28 MB Win / ~4 MB Mac)
192-page illustrated astronomy book with an overview of the basics of astronomy, tips on sky-watching and a helpful glossary of astronomical terms. Requires Digital Download Core Application and must be downloaded separately.
Download from our Extras page!

• The Digital Download Data Modules will not work with any other version of Starry Night.
• Digital Download 6 Data Modules will not function with Digital Download Core Application Version 5.
• The Digital Download 6 Core Application Upgrade will only work if you have Starry Night Digital Download Version 5 previously installed.
• Starry Night Digital Download Core Application and Data Modules are not refundable.

To run Starry Night Digital Download you need:

Windows: Requires Windows XP, 500 MHz or higher processor, 128 MB RAM and 900 MB of hard disk space. 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card. Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.

Starry Night will operate on any Windows Vista system that supports Windows Aero. Not sure if your system supports Aero? Please download the Microsoft Upgrade Advisor here

Macintosh: Universal Binary runs natively on Intel and PPC Macintosh computers. Requires OS X 10.3.9 or higher, G3 450 MHz or higher processor, 128 MB RAM and 900 MB of hard disk space. Will not run on OS 9.x or earlier. 32 MB OpenGL capable graphics card. Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.

Basic support for joysticks recognized by Windows XP and Mac OS X.

Starry Night 6.0.6 will run on a Windows Vista computer provided the latest graphics card Vista drivers supporting hardware-accelerated OpenGL are installed. At present, there are Vista drivers that do not support hardware-accelerated OpenGL to the extent required by Starry Night. This is beyond our control.

The following graphics cards have been successfully tested against Starry Night on Windows Vista using latest manufacturer's drivers:

nVidia: 7600, 7300, 6600, 6200
ATI: X1900, X1650, X1550, X1300, X800 (non-AGP only)

By no means is this an exhaustive list. We are certain there are many more cards that will work and we will add more cards to this list as we are able to fully test them.