Starry Night FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions For Starry Night
Starry Night Pro FAQ
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You have to change your home location by selecting "Go | Set Home Location"
and changing your location from this window. Do not change your information
by clicking on the "Location" button in the Tools Palette. This just changes
your current viewing location, not your home location.
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The best site for finding the latitude and longitude of any city is probably
Heavens-Above.
If you are located in the United States, you can also use ZipInfo
(to find the latitude and longitude by ZIP code) or the USGS
(to query by geographical feature). If you type in your home location's
co-ordinates instead of choosing from the list of cities in Starry Night, you
must also make sure that your time zone is entered correctly. Take a look at
the World
Time Zone Map if you do not know your location.
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Please see the Custom
Horizons page and the Nodes
and Pictures page for information on editing your horizon. Several special
questions not covered on these pages are answered below. Note that the information
on editing the horizon in the 1st edition of the Starry Night Pro
User's Guide has several errors. The new electronic version of the User's Guide (included with all Internet updates) will have the correct information.
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This was a bug that was fixed in version 3.1.1 of Starry Night Pro. Click
here to download the latest update if you have an earlier version.
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Navigate down to the "Starry Night Pro/Starry Night Pro Data/Horizons" folder
on your hard drive. Place any images you wish to add to the program in this
folder. Then start Starry Night Pro and select "Edit | Edit Horizon". If you
double-click on an image of a tree or cloud, its Info Window comes up. The dropbox
near the top of this window has a list of other images. Any images you put in
the "Horizons" folder should now appear in this list. You can select them and
then move them around or resize them like any of the default horizon images.
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Navigate down to the "Starry Night Pro/Starry Night Pro Data/Horizons" folder
on your hard drive. There is a file here called "Earth.txt" which has the horizon
picture. Make a copy of this file in the same directory, and call it something
different, for example "Backyard.txt". When you open up Starry Night Pro next
time, go to "Settings-Horizon". In the "Profile" dropbox you will see two choices-"Earth"
and "Backyard". Choose "Backyard" and then choose "Edit | Edit Horizon". Any changes
you make will be saved to the "Backyard" horizon file. You can add additional
horizons in the same fashion. To choose which of your horizons to display, just
choose "Settings | Horizon" and change the horizon in the "Profile" dropbox.
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Open the Planets Palette by selecting "Window | Planets" from the main menu.
In the Planets Palette, click on the name of the planet that you wish to go
to, and press the "Go There" button.
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Right-click (click and hold on a Mac) on the star you wish to go to. Choose
"Go There" from the menu which appears. This will take you to the orbit of the
star, from which you can look back at the sun.
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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
Pro\Starry Night Pro Data\Prefs\Pro" (Windows) "System Folder\Prefs\SPACE.com\Pro
(Macintosh) There is a field in this file called "DefaultAzimuth" which has
a value of "3.14". Change this value to "0" if you want Starry Night to open
facing north, "1.57" to face west, or "4.71" to face east.
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