This alerts you to events happening today. The first thing I noticed when I first started up 6.0 was the Daily Event Reminder, literally in my face. For now, I’m going to concentrate on the new features which I’m particularly excited about, the ones that impact my own observing. Like any powerful piece of software, Starry Night® is many-faceted and serves different functions for different users. When I started to work for Starry Night® last year, I discovered all kinds of things in the program which I’d never seen or used, despite heavy use. I have been a user of Starry Night® on a daily basis for the last 7 years, both to plan my own observations and to help others. I’m a very active visual observer, interested in every sort of object I can see in the sky: Sun, Moon, planets, asteroids, comets, double stars, variable stars, and deep sky objects. I’ve had a chance to play with it for a couple of weeks, and would like to share with you the things I particularly like about this new version.īy way of background, I’ve been an amateur astronomer for decades, and a Starry Night® user since version 2.1 in 1999. Starry Night® 6.0 has arrived with a long list of neat new features. Sometimes referred as Northern Cross, this beautiful constellation carries several observing jewels across the summer nighttime sky. Linda Fung examines seven of her favorite new Starry Night® features. Other New Features in Starry Night® Version 6.Geoff Gaherty tells us about four fantastic new features in Starry Night® Version 6. Welcome again to our monthly newsletter with features on exciting celestial events, product reviews, tips & tricks, and a monthly sky calendar. If you have trouble viewing this newsletter, click here.
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