Starry Night Pro Plus 6.2
by Imaginova
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Software Reviews of Starry Night Pro Plus 6.2
Customer Review: Great Software But Could Do Much Better With Compatibility
Summary: 5 Stars
Great purchase....Has everything that you could possibly need. The Only problem is vista compatibility. The disc i have says its compatible with vista but it did not seem to work well with vista. It works amazing with XP. I would recommend that you run starry night on windows xp(service Pack 2 ) compatibilty mode(If you are using vista). Once you do that, it works great. Its a little slow but it works!
Enjoy!....Definitely a good purchase
Customer Review: There's a lot packed in there
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using it for about 10 days. There is a LOT of information packed in there, and there is a bit of a learning curve as you how to access various functions. Being able to navigate between celestial objects and create maps for guiding yourself among the stars is excellent. As I don't have an autoguiding scope I can't comment on the integration of StarryNight but I have read from the forums that its pretty good. One issue at present is that the latest version of Quicktime is NOT compatible with the latest version of StarryNight. You need to downgrade Quicktime to 7.3- preferably before installing Starry Night or various things won't work. Support from the company is excellent and I strongly recommend you join the Yahoo Starry Night Moderated group.Customer Review: Expensive, but well worth it. Also supports Vista
Summary: 5 Stars
Works great on my Macbook AND my Vista machine (which is used less and less as I revel in the joy that is "Mac OS X"). The amount of information available is staggering. I was somewhat underwhelmed by the AllSky survey, but when I consider it only adds 60 to cost (compared to Pro) and other enhancements are included as well, the "Plus" is well worth it. be prepared for a total install of almost 12Gb if you copy the AllSky to the local drive (recommended).
I can certainly understand passing up Pro Plus for just Pro, but if you have the extra, I think it's well worth the money spent...
***Vista issues seem to have been addressed in the current version. You may need to DL patches from the site for older ones...***
Customer Review: Not Vista compatible
Summary: 1 Stars
This is absolutely a beautiful program--when it works. In fact on XP I would give it four stars. The problem is it won't run under many machines loaded with Vista. The company, on their Yahoo group site, makes many recommendations for getting it to work, but it still wouldn't for me on two different laptops. One gave me screwed up graphics and the other an ominous memory dump message.
The real problem, I think, is that the program was originally for Macs and they were able to adapt it for Windows 98 & XP, but Vista is a whole different kettle of fish. It has been almost a year since their site said they would have a Vista compatible version "soon." I think they removed that message now. Also Amazon should remove the claim that it's runs on the Vista platform.
I'm afraid that Imaginova is a long way off from becoming truly Vista compatible. I recommend looking at SkyMap Pro or SkyTools at skyhound.com.
Customer Review: Will not install, no customer service
Summary: 1 Stars
I just read the reviews indicating the program would not install on Windows Vista. I have a Mac G5 and it would not install on that, either. I contacted Customer Service twice and they explained that tech support was only available by email and they were located in Canada. I presented my installation problem to them by email, however, they never even bothered to respond. Needless to say, I returned the program.
Neil McCorkle