Starry Night Pro FAQ

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Adjust your window to the view you want, then choose "File | Print". Starry Night Pro has a predefined set of print settings it will use when printing charts. To use your own settings instead, choose "File | Preferences | Printing" and click the button marked "Use Current Settings When Printing". To customize your print settings, see the next question.

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Set up Starry Night with the settings you like, and then choose "Settings | Save Settings As". This will open a window asking you to give the new settings a name. Call them "MyPrintSettings" or something similar. Then when you want to a print charts, select "Settings | Use Settings | MyPrintSettings" from the menu and choose "File | Preferences | Printing" to ensure that the button marked "Use Current Settings When Printing" is checked.

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You cannot print images in colour by using the "File | Print" command. However, there is a way around this. Set up the screen so that it shows the image you wish to print out. Choose "File | Export as Image". This opens a window which allows you to save the screen as a graphical image. The bottom left corner of this window has a dropbox which allows you to save the image in several popular formats, such as a "jpeg" or a "pict". Once you have saved this image, you can open it a program such as Internet Explorer and choose "File | Print" to print out a colour image.

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Yes. Choose "File | Preferences | Zooming/Elevation" from the Starry Night Pro menu. Make sure that the box marked "Allow Maximum Zoom Out" is checked. Then use the zoom buttons to zoom out as far as possible. Starry Night Pro allows you to print (and display onscreen) fields of view as large as 180 degrees, which is the entire hemisphere of sky above the horizon.

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These two features will not work if you chose the "Minimum Install" option when you installed QuickTime. You should reinstall QuickTime and choose the "Full" or "Recommended Install" option. Both features should then work properly.

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This is a result of the compression method which you used when saving the movie. From within Starry Night, choose "File | Preferences | Movies". The "Compression Setting" window which opens allows you to modify the compression settings. The top dropbox in this window is the compression method. If you saw distorted colors in the movies you made, try changing the compression method. "Sorenson Video" is a good compressor which usually doesn't distort the original images noticeably. Also make sure that the "Quality" slider in the "Compression Settings" window is all the way to the right.

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