![]() I simply can’t tell because there are too many different options available to sort out all the combinations. So, maybe this is a bug, or maybe it is basic behavior for some pictures. Now to make matters worse, in some cases it seems to behave correctly for some pictures SOME of the time, and not other times. You have to turn off this or that picture to make the objects COVERED by the picture become active. If you go to the Trapezium in M42, rather than give you a pop-up that provides you with info about each star as you hover over it, the detail will be for the Orion Nebula itself. For example, let’s say you have M42 open with the various picture options turned on. See, there are SOO many options that it is hard to remember which option modifies which behavior… What do I mean by that? Well, as it turns out, when you have some pictures turned on from the different display options and when you hover over an object that is on the picture, you can’t get the details. But at the same time, I had some problems with it. ![]() The nice thing about the pictures is that they can scale up or down as you zoom in or out, and they can even be adjusted for brightness. In addition, rather than simply show little colored ovals or squares or circles that designate the space the object appears to be in along with some position angle and relative size, you can also choose to include pictures of many of the objects. You can easily overlay catalogs such as “Finest NGC objects”, NGC Catalog, and Messier Objects at few clicks of the button. The layering of display options is really rich. ![]() But find it I did, young Skywalker, and now it starts the way I like it to start. The dialog to save these settings was under the “Options” Menu, and I had to look around to find it. In addition to this, you can also set up you display to your preferences and save a “Default” setup, but I will tell you now that the process for doing this was not intuitive. You can have numerous favorites for different seasons or different kinds of observing routines. You can save this as a “Favorite” view and pull it up whenever you choose. You can tailor up a special display maybe for summer galaxies that has settings that provide you with the optimal settings for that kind of observing. You can include Constellation boundaries, Alt-az coordinates, RA and DEC lines, and just about anything else you choose. You can change the COLOR of almost anything. You can control virtually any aspect of the way the screens appear. It has scads of features that are VERY appealing to people that use Planetarium programs.Ĭontrols are numerous and useful. As Simon would say about a good performance: “It’s very nice actually… I rather enjoyed it.” As it turns out Starry Night Pro is a reasonable Planetarium program. ![]() These apparently are two different things.įirst, the review of the Planetarium software that Imaginova Canada sells. Why do I want you to repeat that? I want you to repeat that because I am doing TWO reviews here… The first review is on the software that I purchased, and the second was on software that I WANTED to purchase.
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