Additional Files for Starry Night Backyard ESD
Starry Night ESD is the version of Starry Night Backyard that is
downloadable over the Internet. The CD-ROM version of Starry Night Backyard
comes with 1 million stars. If we were to ship the entire CD-ROM version
of Starry Night Backyard over the Internet, the download would be about
40 MB. This would take several hours to download with a modem. To make
the ESD version faster to download, we do not include the dimmer 9th to
11th magnitude stars. These dim stars are only visible with binoculars
or a telescope.
This page allows owners of Starry Night Backyard ESD to download the extra
files needed to add to the ESD version in order to get the full 1 million
star database of CD-ROM version. In order to use this update, you have
to know how to move and copy files from one location to another on your
computer.
Follow these steps:
The minimum download time with a 56k modem is about
an hour, and it will take longer if there is heavy Internet traffic.
The download will be much faster with a cable modem or ADSL.
HT (10-14).ssd
HT (9-10).ssd
HT Index.dat
SAO Index.dat
Find the "Starry Night Backyard" folder on your hard drive. On the Macintosh, this folder is located wherever you dragged the disk image of the Starry Night Backyard download. On Windows, this folder is inside the "Program Files\Starry Night" folder.
Inside the "Starry Night Backyard" folder, look for the folder "Starry Night Backyard Data". Move all of the files you downloaded and uncompressed onto your computer into the "Starry Night Backyard Data" folder. Move these 4 files over:
HT (10-14).ssd
HT (9-10).ssd
HT Index.dat
SAO Index.dat
That's it! Note that you should not notice much difference in the way that Starry Night Backyard runs after this, until you zoom in, at which point there will be many more dim stars visible.
Still want to know more?
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