From Start-to-Finish, It's Easy to Find, Capture and Process Beautiful Images
Share your passion for astronomy with others by capturing beautiful astrophotographs. Starry Night AstroPhoto Suite will help you every step of the way, from identifying objects to controlling your computerized telescope and imaging equipment to capturing and processing images. The AstroPhoto Suite combines essential features of Starry Night Pro astronomy software with MaxIm DL Lite digital imaging software in one comprehensive, easy-to-use package. Your astrophotos will reveal the colors of faint objects your eye cannot detect and details that elude even the best-trained eye in real-time viewing with a telescope. Capture images of celestial objects that rival those from professional observatories.
Key Features in Starry Night AstroPhoto
Plan observing sessions with Event Finder that instantly displays celestial events, such as lunar and solar eclipses and conjunctions, for months far into the future
Create Observing Lists of astronomical objects using a variety of filters such as magnitude, altitude above horizon, type or database. Quickly see what objects you have observed and which ones you still need to hunt down
Find targets effortlessly with three-view starhopping charts customized to your equipment
Select your equipment and FOV indicators from expanded default database of over 300 Orion, Meade, Celestron and Vixen scopes, binoculars, SBIG, Apogee, FLI and Starlight Express CCD chips and more
Controls most popular brands of computerized telescopes including Orion SkyQuest Intelliscope, Meade LX-200 and AutoStar and Celestron Nexstar series (additional cable required)
Easily import pictures captured and processed with MaxIm DL Lite back into Starry Night
Receive automatic updates of new discoveries and orbital data of satellites, comets and asteroids
And all the data and features from Starry Night Pro version 6
Features in MaxIm DL Lite
Includes the basic tools you need to produce stunning astronomical images
Smooth and sharpen images by filtering out hot spots or dead pixels
Calibrate images for crisp shots of the same image
Combine up to 4 monochrome images into a single full-color image
Supports webcams and DSLRS, including
Entire Canon EOS Digital line (1D, 1Ds, 1Dmkll, 1Dsmkll, 10D, 20D, 20Da, 300D/Rebel/KISS, 350D/Rebel XT, D30 and D60)
Lumenera
Meade DSI and LPI
Nikon D70
Olympus E1, E-300, E-500
Orion StarShoot Deep-Space
Set exposure sequences and durations with auto-save to capture images automatically
Starry Night AstroPhoto Suite upgrade includes:
DVD-ROM for Windows XP containing Starry Night AstroPhoto, astronomy software plus plug-in for MaxIm DL Lite
CD-ROM for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP containing MaxIm DL Lite imaging software
Exclusive "SkyTheater" DVD with over an hour or original movies about space
Starry Night Companion, a 192-page illustrated astronomy book
New, comprehensive 210-page User's Guide
System Requirements: A DVD-ROM drive is required for the installation of Starry Night AstroPhoto (2006 edition) on your computer.
Requires: Windows XP, 500 MHz or higher processor, 128 MB RAM and 2 GB of hard disk space. OpenGL support requires a 64 MB OpenGL 1.4 capable graphics card (OpenGL 2.0 is required for features like shaded sky and animated grass). Minimum recommended monitor resolution of 1024x768. DVD-ROM drive required for installation.
Recommended Graphics Card: 128 MB nVidia GeForce 6600 (or higher) or ATI Radeon X800 or higher.
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