Starry Night Pro Plus version 6 ( Windows Macintosh )

Travel where you've never been before! For the advanced amateur astronomer, the full-color AllSky CCD mosaic, sophisticated telescope controls and comprehensive observational tools included in Starry Night Pro Plus version 6 will engage you in the hobby like no other software. The biggest single addition to Starry Night software since its inception, the full-color AllSky CCD image mosaic of the entire night sky visible from Earth weighs in at 6.44 billion Pixels in size. Named AllSky for its uniform coverage from pole to pole, it's a single picture of the whole sky that has been precisely mapped to Starry Night's Computer generated stars and databases. View on your computer screen an image better than the best-trained human eye can capture in Real-time viewing through a telescope on a "good seeing" night. See the entire Milky Way in exquisite detail and then Zoom in to explore dust lanes and nebulae. Instead of dots and circles, you will see an actual photo of a star or a deep sky object. Smoothly and swiftly navigate this full color photograph of the entire night sky, to a limiting magnitude of 14-15. Five years in development, the AllSky CCD mosaic is comprised of about 20,000 individual images, originally imaged at a Resolution of 12 arcseconds per pixel with a scientific grade, custom built AP9E CCD camera. In all, Starry Night Pro Plus version 6 has over 25 new features that bring more power and control to your observing and imaging. Starry Night Pro Plus will change how you look at the night sky.

Zoom in on full-color AllSky CCD image mosaic of the entire night sky to a limiting magnitude of 14-15, mapped precisely to Starry Night's databases

AllSky CCD image loads 20X faster in DDS texture Format (additional 6 GB of Hard Drive space needed)

View positions and outlines of 1400 dark, emission, planetary and reflection nebulae

Identify 1700 globular and open star clusters

Fly over super-high resolution 24-bit color map of Mars land mass topography above the sea

Hover over Earth and see details within 1 km (0.6 miles) resolution

Create your own astrophotography using imaging plug-in to integrate Starry Night and MaxIm DL* imaging software (sold separately, Windows only)

1000+ craters, valleys and more instantly with surface feature outlines for the Moon

Controls most popular brands of robotic telescopes