Keiron Smith
The first time Starry Night runs, a dialog box opens that asks you to set your home location. Once you have done this, you do not need to change your home location unless you move.
After initially setting your home location, if you decide to change/move to a different permanent location in Starry Night then look in File (PC) and in Starry Night 'program name' (Mac) ---> choose "Set Home Location" and follow the same process again.
1. The List Tab
Click the List tab. This displays a huge database of cities throughout the world. Use the scrollbar on the right to look through the list. If your home city is listed, click on its name to highlight this city. Press the Select Panorama button to associate a landscape with your location.
2. The Panorama
Scroll through the available panoramas and click on your choice. The press the Select button to confirm panorama.
Then press the Save As Home Location button to save the changes. Congratulations, you're done!
If your city is not listed, try entering your zip/postal code by pressing the Zip/Postal Code tab. If your city is still not listed, proceed to step 3.
Tip: A list of astronomical observatories is included in the location list. To see this list, click on the Province column heading and scroll down to “Observatories”.
3. Latitude & Longitude (for unlisted cities)
Click the Latitude/Longitude tab. Type in the name of your location and enter your latitude and longitude. You can enter these values in degrees, degrees & minutes, or degrees, minutes & seconds. Starry Night will convert your values to degrees and minutes.You must also enter the correct time zone. Time zones are calculated according to the time difference from London, England. For example, all communities on Eastern Standard Time are 5 hours behind London, so you would enter “-5 h” if you are on Eastern Standard Time. If you do not know your latitude, longitude, or time zone, click Lookup Lat/Long on Internet for Internet resources that will help you find this information.
Once you have entered your co- ordinates, click the Add Location to List button.
4. Add Location to List
This will open a window where you can enter your city, province/state and country. Press the Add Location button once you have entered this information, then press the Save As Home Location button.
Tip: If you ever move and need to change your location (or if you initially enter your home location incorrectly), choose
Set Home Location from the File menu (Windows) or the Starry Night menu (Macintosh) to enter a new home location.
WHY CAN"T I SIMPLY LOOK FOR A GPS ON A USB???????????????????????????????
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THIS IS THE WORST!! PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!
EVERY SINGLE VERSION HAS THE SAME STINKING PROBLEM WITH THE PANAORAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'VE TRIED TO CHANGE LOCATION AND DEFAULT PANORAMA SEVERAL TIMES AND I CAN'T GET THE CHANGE TO STICK!!!! I HATE THIS CRAP!!!!!!
WHY DOES HAVING A PANORAMA THAT LOKS LIKE NOTHING IN MY STATE ANNOY ME SO MUCH? I DON'T KNOW -- BUT BEING UNABLE TO CHANGE IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you need assistance with the panoramas please submit a ticket here:
https://support.simulationcurriculum.com/anonymous_requests/new
I'm very disappointed after initially using version SN7 Pro with great success and now having opted for SN8 Pro Plus on a MacBook Pro running Mojave (v 10.14.4). The software is plagued with bugs and the benefits barely noticeable despite a hefty upgrade cost. A few noted so far include: Not being able to delete observing sites from the Home Location dialogue nor assign a panorama to a saved location. The default panorama, for some reason, weirdly only extends a few degrees below the horizon and again becomes transparent within the viewing area of the screen. One cannot set a location automatically but has to manually enter the GPS coordinates despite the App having set location sharing. Options for setting times are limited (GMT or Local only). The All Sky option is not dimmable based one's set home location. For example, Andromeda is reported to be visible as an "all-night" object. In fact, from my location, Andromeda never gets much higher than 14 degrees and is certainly not an "all night" object so hardly worthy of a listing in the SkyGuide. Another example is Venus passing Spica after sunset. Again, this occurs at an altitude of around 8 degrees! Hot links within the SkyGuide to direct one to the event within SN would have been welcome. The space bar option to avoid the animated transition to a target often does not work. Hitting N, for example, while say facing South and then hitting the Space Bar does not always halt the animation. Setting FOV Indicators under the Observe menu, does not offer predefined FOV settings whereas, under the right hand side bar options does at least offer a Telrad and Rigel Quickfinder but, I recall in previous versions there were many more preset options, for example for finder scopes and telescopes. The "from equipment" drop down list fails to offer any presets, for example clicking on Barlow/Reducer simply has "None" as the only option. One might expect that transit calculations might be on offer in a pro version. Don't get me wrong, I love SN, just a little disappointed in what I thought would be an exhilarating experience with the top of range version.