Starry Night Deluxe

Easy to use PC planetarium software and video media on CDROM/DVD.

With this great software you will be able to see a simulated night sky view that will allow you to find planets and other facinating targets in the sky for any hour on every night of any year. A must for the novice small telescope user.

This software isn't just good fun - it's educational too!

If you are new to astronomy then Complete Space & Astronomy Pack is the perfect introduction. From the most trusted name in astronomy software, Starry Night Complete Space & Astronomy Pack Deluxe Edition is a revolutionary fusion of the world's most realistic desktop planetarium software with a new, easy-to-use point-and-click interface and 50 interactive guided tours of the night sky.

Introducing your entire family to the wonders of the night sky has never been easier or more fun! All it takes is a click of a mouse and you can watch a sunset from the surface of Mars, hitch a ride on a comet and learn which stars and planets are in the sky tonight or any night between 200 BC and 3,000 AD from anywhere on Earth. You can even travel through time to watch eclipses or see what the stars looked like the day you were born.

Blast off to visit any planet in the solar system, its moons or the Milky Way and learn to easily identify and locate planets, stars and constellations. There are 1,000,000 stars to explore, included in the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 3D star catalogues and 28,000 galaxies from the Starry Night exclusive Tully database. Automatic updates keep Starry Night software current with new discoveries and orbital data of comets, asteroids and satellites.

Complete Space & Astronomy Pack Deluxe Edition has everything you need to get started - 3 CD-ROMs of planetarium and space exploration software, over an hour of movies on DVD and an illustrated astronomy book.

Features:

- 2 CD-ROMs of Starry Night software with 50 interactive, guided tours to get you started exploring our solar system

- Deep Space Explorer CD-ROM - Fly your own starship beyond the Milky Way anywhere within 700 light years of Earth. Included is over an hour of multimedia about the origins of the universe, black holes, supernovas and more!

- SkyTheater DVD An awe-inspiring tour of the mysteries of the solar system in over an hour-and-a-half of exclusive movies

- Starry Night Companion, a bonus 192-page illustrated book containing an overview of the basics of astronomy, tips on skywatching, advice on buying telescopes and binoculars and a glossary of astronomical terms.

System Requirements PC Windows XP, 500 mhz, 128mb Ram

Mac OSX 10.3 or higher, G3 450mhz, 128mb Ram