After purchasing a downloadable version of Starry Night, you will receive an email from the Starry Night Store. The email is called "Registration and Download Details."  If you cannot find the email, please check your spam/junk folders.

Downloading and installing Starry Night - instructions are different for PC and Mac. 

Inside the Registration and Download Details email, you will find the following:

WINDOWS PC: 

1.  If given the option, choose "Save" and save to your desktop (so you know where the installer will be once the download is complete).  The installer looks like this:

2.  If you are using Internet Explorer and encounter any difficulty downloading (i.e too slow, stops, incomplete, etc.), try Firefox or Google Chrome instead.  This is very important!

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

http://www.google.com/chrome

3.  Once the download is completed, double click the starrynightpro7.exe file to run the installer.  If you double click the starrynightpr7.exe file, and it does not run for any reason (or you get any error message, i.e. archive corrupted), then the download did not successfully complete ,and you must re-download the installer.  Note, you can download the installer onto any computer and from any location, and then transport it to your computer of choice by disk or usb drive (if your internet is slow, this may be advisable).  If you are having difficulty downloading Starry Night, please be sure to cancel any other torrents/downloads/streaming running in the background.

Click on Next.

4. Please check the button next to I agree the terms in the License Agreement, and then click on Next.

5. Click on Typical. If you are a more advanced user, go ahead and choose the other options as suitable.

6.  Click on Install.

7. Click on Finish.

8. The Starry Night Pro 7 icon may be located on your desktop screen, or you can search for Starry Night Pro in your Search Menu.

9. Enter your registration information in the registration window. If you are having any trouble with this, please see this article: https://support.simulationcurriculum.com/entries/21085366-How-to-register-Starry-Night-software-downloadable-version-

10.  If after setting your home location you receive the following "Starry Night...needs to close" error message please see this graphics card KB article here:

https://support.simulationcurriculum.com/entries/20282276-graphics-...

 Note: the error message seen above can also be displayed when Starry Night is Initialing OpenGL during start up.  See the linked KB article above.

MAC:

1.  The Mac installer can probably be found in your Downloads folder.  The installer looks like this:

2.   Once the download is completed, you can double click the starrynightpro7.dmg file to run the installer.  If you double click the starrynightpro7.dmg file and it does not run for any reason (or you get any error message, i.e. archive corrupted), then the download was not successfully completed and you must re-download the installer.  Note, you can download the installer onto any computer and from any location and transport it to your computer of choice by disk or usb drive (if your internet is slow, this may be advisable).  If you are having difficulty downloading Starry Night, please be sure to cancel any other torrents/downloads/streaming running in the background.

3. The following window should open up. Please click on the icon to start installing Starry Night Pro, and follow the steps listed below.

Click on Continue.

Click on Continue.

Click on Install.

Wait for the installer to finish the installation.

Click on Close.

4. Starry Night will be installed in the Applications folder.  Run the Starry Night program and register when prompted.

5. Enter your registration information in the registration window. If you are having any trouble with this, please see this article:

https://support.simulationcurriculum.com/entries/21085366-How-to-register-Starry-Night-software-downloadable-version-