Starry Night Digital Download FAQ

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You have to change your home location by selecting Set Home Location from the File menu (Windows) or the Starry Night Backyard menu (Macintosh)and changing your location from this window. Do not change your information by clicking on "Viewing Location" in the View menu. This just changes your current viewing location, not your permanent home location.

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Just click the Lookup Lat/Long On Internet button in the Latitude/Longitude tab of the Viewing Location dialog box to visit a website with information on finding your latitude and longitude.

See “How do I find my time zone?” on page 125 of your User's Guide if you do not know your time zone.

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Open the Find pane to see a list of planets. Double-click on the name of the planet you wish to visit, to centre on this planet. Then right-click (Ctrl-click on the Mac) on the planet and choose Go There from the planet’s contextual menu.

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Right-click (Ctrl-click on the Mac) on the star you wish to go to. Choose Go There from the menu which appears. This will take you to the star or galaxy, from which you can look back at the Sun.

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Select File-Preferences and choose "Startup" from the dropbox on the upper left corner of the Preferences window. Move the "Face Direction" slider to the cardinal direction you want Starry Night to face at startup.
You can change the startup viewing direction by editing the text file "Prefs.txt" which is in the following folder on your hard drive: "Program Files\Starry Night Backyard 4\Sky Data\Prefs\" (Windows) "Library\Preferences\SPACE.com\Backyard (Macintosh) There is a field in this file called "DefaultAzimuth" which has a value of "180.00". Change this value to "0" if you want Starry Night to open facing north, "270.00" to face west, or "90.00" to face east.

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