Starry Night software

Anybody had any experience with the software 'Starry Night Enthusiast 6.2'?
In particular, does it work with Vista? Evidently a lot of people have been
told that it works with Vista only to purchase it and find that it doesn't,
but one or two seem happy enough.

Perhaps the criterion is that you have to have a version of Vista which
supports Aero, but I don't know what to make of it.

Anyone any ideas?

Ian.

Ian Bingham wrote:
Anybody had any experience with the software 'Starry Night Enthusiast
6.2'? In particular, does it work with Vista? Evidently a lot of people
have been told that it works with Vista only to purchase it and find
that it doesn't, but one or two seem happy enough.

Perhaps the criterion is that you have to have a version of Vista which
supports Aero, but I don't know what to make of it.

Anyone any ideas?

Ian.
Hi Ian

I've had Starynights Pro Plus working with Vista. It seemed to be the
installation program that was the problem - I set it to XP compatible in
properties and re ran. The software then installed and worked OK

Mind you I've since removed Vista from my laptop and gone back to XP - I
far prefer the experience.

Keith

On 3 Oct, 10:14, "Ian Bingham" wrote:
Anybody had any experience with the software 'Starry Night Enthusiast 6.2'?
In particular, does it work with Vista? Evidently a lot of people have been
told that it works with Vista only to purchase it and find that it doesn't,
but one or two seem happy enough.

Perhaps the criterion is that you have to have a version of Vista which
supports Aero, but I don't know what to make of it.

Anyone any ideas?

Ian.

I used a version of Starry Night Enthusiast that was given away
free a year or two ago. It had a very slick interface, but I stopped
using it in favour of Cartes du Ciel. I would recommend CdC, mainly
because of the availibility of external catalogues. I like to
photograph double supernovae, and CdC makes it easy to
programme them in. It will then point my telescope at them
with a minimum of fuss.


Regards

Donal
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"Ian Bingham" wrote in message
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Anybody had any experience with the software 'Starry Night Enthusiast
6.2'? In particular, does it work with Vista? Evidently a lot of people
have been told that it works with Vista only to purchase it and find that
it doesn't, but one or two seem happy enough.

Perhaps the criterion is that you have to have a version of Vista which
supports Aero, but I don't know what to make of it.

Anyone any ideas?

Ian.
My ver 4.5 works on vista home premium 64 bit
Clear skies
Bill

Many thanks, Bill. Also thanks to Keith and Donal. I seem to have a
baleful influence on anything electronic, but I guess I'll take a chance on
Enthusiast 6.2 and hope it will work with Vista.

Ian.


"Bill Boyd" wrote in message
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"Ian Bingham" wrote in message
...
Anybody had any experience with the software 'Starry Night Enthusiast
6.2'? In particular, does it work with Vista? Evidently a lot of people
have been told that it works with Vista only to purchase it and find that
it doesn't, but one or two seem happy enough.

Perhaps the criterion is that you have to have a version of Vista which
supports Aero, but I don't know what to make of it.

Anyone any ideas?

Ian.
My ver 4.5 works on vista home premium 64 bit
Clear skies
Bill