Tour the Cosmos like never before with Starry Night Pro Plus 7

Starry Night Pro Plus 7 makes it so easy to control your telescope and access research-grade features and databases. Engineered for precision, designed for research, and continually evolving for the astronomer who expects the very best in-class planetarium experience.

Tons of Features Included with Starry Night Pro Plus 7!

Planetary Texture Collection offers up to 100 planet and moon maps showing rock and element locations, mineral composition, chemical distribution, gravity, magnetic field, notable topographic features, and much more
All Sky Survey Images from Planck, IRAS-COBE and 2 Micron reveal a dramatically different view of our sky and let you explore the relic radiation left over from the Big Bang.
Improved Telescope Support.
Expanded asteroid catalog with highlighted/highlightable families and groups.
Updated Equipment List includes the latest telescopes, eyepieces, and accessories.
Analemma can now be drawn on a planet’s surface
Exclusive Extragalactic 3D Database includes over 200,000 galaxies encompassing over 1 billion lights years of space
New Photorealistic Horizon Panoramas make you feel like you are there.
All known exoplanets as 3D bodies with proper location, size, orbit and planetary texture
Stunning new user interface with Universal Search, locates sky objects, favourite files, SkyGuide pages, options, events, and more.
New highly detailed surface textures of planets and major moons
All stars accurately rendered as 3-dimensional bodies with classification-appropriate color, texture and relative radii.
Expanded set of “Space Missions” including 30 new detailed and accurate 3D models of spacecraft and their trajectories. Updates to new/ongoing missions.
The most precise planetary positions available (using Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL-DE-422 ephemerides.)
3500 unique object text descriptions for stars, planets, moons, satellites, exoplanets, space missions, deep sky objects and, more.
Restyled SkyGuide with updated tours and media
Advanced Planet Rendering for terrain shadows, specular reflections on water, and city night lights on dark side (Earth only).
Updated Messier catalog with new visually stunning images for star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies.

Other Features of Starry Night Pro Plus 7:

Zoom in on the first-ever color All Sky CCD mosaic of the entire sky, to magnitude of 14-15
Connect to MaxIm DL to take pictures with your telescope and camera and import them into Starry Night*
Observational Planner
Ephemeris Generator
Graph Tool
Improved Telescope Control
Equipment List
FOV Indicators
Image Editor
Hertzsprung-Russell-Diagram
180 degrees field of view
Advanced Guides (hour Angle, Precession, Galactic/Extra-Galactic)
Path Options (Celestial and Local Paths)
Orbit Editor
Night Vision
Advanced Light Pollution Settings
Location Markers and Surface Feature Outlines
12 Milky Way Spectrums
Travel in time from 99,999 BCE to 99,999 ACE
Millions of DeepSky Object Databases
Explore 16 million stars
Celestial Event Finder

Included:

Starry Night Companion, a 192-page illustrated astronomy book PDF (embedded within the program)
New, comprehensive 146-page User's Guide PDF (embedded within the program)

Requirements:

Windows 7 or higher / Macintosh OS X 10.7 or higher. 1GHz or higher processor, 1 GB RAM and 12 GB of hard disk space. 128 MB OpenGL 1.4 capable graphics card.

Note: In rare instances, upgrades to Windows 10 on computers with previous Windows operating systems may result in an incompatible graphics card.