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Old 01-01-2007, 10:01 PM
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Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)
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My suggestion is to find it yourself. Everyone has different opinions about what makes a program suitable to them. I've downloaded dozens of trial versions off the net and found one that I personally like best, & no-one I know has used it here. I asked. I personally use Voyager III from Carina Software out of California. It's very friendly and is more natural to use to my mind. I can set the size and brightness of the higher magnitude stars using a slider, which lets me simply tune what is on screen to look exactly like what I'm actually looking at up there. Nice features such as various intensity night modes too. It's the little things that make it a good choice for me.

Try to download some from here and give them a whirl: http://astro.nineplanets.org/astrosoftware.html but note that some links are broken.

Cheers - and happy hunting
Chris
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