Users can upgrade to the registered version by paying the registration fee, which will allow the download to operate for more than two weeks. CostĪ 15-day trial of Starry Night Backyard is free for downloading at the Starry Night website. It is even a serious competitor for the position held by Software Bisque’s TheSky program, which will be reviewed later in this series, but Starry Night hasn’t achieved quite that level of acceptance at this writing. Starry Night, a relative newcomer to the Macintosh astronomy scene, has all but eliminated the low-end competition for planetarium software for the Macintosh. Macintosh Starry Night Backyard for Macintosh requires PowerPC, System 7.5 or later, and at least 24 MB of RAM. If you do not already have QuickTime installed, you should download it. Starry Night requires QuickTime 3 or later to run on Windows. Windows Starry Night Backyard requires a PC with a Pentium or higher processor, SVGA 256 color-capable monitor or better, and Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0 or later (it will not work with Windows 3.1). ![]() ![]() Pro users should expect 50-75 MB hard drive space will be needed. The system requirements for all versions of Starry Night (there are at least five) are identical. Planetarium software, at a minimum, simulates the appearance of the night sky given certain parameters such as the date, time, and observer location. ![]() 2001 – This is the second in a series of reviews of planetarium software for the Macintosh, with emphasis on its use in schools.
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