Wil starry night run on an eeepc?

[mbaddah]

I'm contemplating purchasing a copy of starry night to have setup on my eeepc whilst observing.

Curretly running Windows 7 on it with 2gb ram. Will this be enough horse power it comfortably? Cheers :)

[mithrandir]

Not sure how they compare in terms of resource demands, but The Sky 6 Pro runs on an emachines notebook (Atom 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP.)

As does Stellarium, Cartes du Ciel, Virtual Moon Atlas, Nebulosity and PHD.

[Omaroo]

As does Voyager. :thumbsup:

[Kevnool]

This lappy here 2.3 dual core 3 gig ram running starry night pro plus needs all that power to run smoothly i close all other programs down to make it scroll smooth but i may not have a decent video card hidden in here....she is stock standard.

So i say plenty of power.....Cheers Kev.

[Kevnool]

This may be for the standard version.

Windows: Requires Windows XP, 800 MHz or higher processor, and 512 MB RAM. 64 MB OpenGL 1.4 capable graphics card (OpenGL 2.0 is required for features like shaded sky and animated grass). Minimum recommended screen resolution of 1024 x 768.

Mine couldnt run on that tho.

Cheers Kev.

[Octane]

I run Starry Night Pro Plus 6 on my little eeePC.

It runs it fine, if a tiny little bit sluggishly when doing slews. That's with the CPU/memory intensive All Sky Map enabled, too. Once that's disabled, she works better.

Also, you have to enable 1024x768 mode (uncompressed) in order to be able to click on things correctly. You can run it in 1024x600, but, you won't be clicking on what you think you are.

Whilst I have Starry Night Pro Plus 6 running, I also have PHD Guiding, my Canon EOS Utility capture software, and, sometimes I'll put on music or watch a video, as well. These little things can do a hell of a lot.

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[White Rabbit]

I have an eepc and run SN6 no problems. You can make SN jump to where ever you want to go to rather than scroll or if you press the space bar it does the same thing.

Cheers