Does Starry Night Pro v6 really need 11GB?

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Quote of requirements from the Starry Night website "5 GB of hard disk space (11 GB needed for full install)"
This seems incredible. None of my other software is more than 0.5GB
Geoff

[Bassnut (Fred)]

Just checked, yes it does, the database is pretty big. Given 1TB (1000GB) is about $100 these days, 11G is not a lot really.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Geoff,

The reason why it takes so much room is because of the magnificent all sky survey images which have an immense amount of detail. It is an absolutely brilliant program.

On my 5 year old laptop, I installed the compressed (5 GB) version, and, it still works fine.

H

[Kevnool (Kev)]

I have the full install.
It is a truely remarkable program.
It also takes a long time to do the install then you got to download the upgrades.
Cheers Kev.

[mozzie (Peter)]

ive had starry night pro full install for a few years on vista worked well.just bought a mac loaded in a short time full version and wow super fast on mac no shutting down and telescope control works very well!!

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Well, I've got it on order--looking forward to using it, given all the positive comments.
Geoff