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I have Starry Night Pro Plus 5.8.2
Overall it's a nice piece of software, lots of eye candy. An you can take a
panoramma of your observing site and use it as your horizon, which looks
pretty funky. But I have to say I have a few gripes too, one is it's ability
to print ledgitable star charts (some objects are printed in light red, which
is stupid when it's on white paper under a red light, and you cant change
it either). Daylight saving feature actually puts you 2 hrs out, on a Windows
machine. You need a good graphic card to take advantage of the eye candy.
The user support group seems to be only useful if your north American, you
simply get ignored if your from anywhere esle. Out of the dozen or so Q's I've
posted there I've had virtually zitt!! replies.
As for controlling a scope I'm sure it will perform well, I feel the designers are
aiming for the soft to be used in this fashion, if your a visual observer who
doesn't want to drag the desktop out every night, and needs to print charts
it fails dramatically. For me I would of been better off sticking with The Sky.
regards,CS sunny days
Rob
PS: Oh I forget I did get a reply to one of my posts, some months before
Ver 6 came out. I posted to the support team the printing problem. Their
reply was to post a fix in ver 6, meaning if I wanted it fixed I have to buy
the upgrade. Nice eh'
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