Software - Starry Nights or ??

What do you think of Starry Nights - I don't need to control a telescope
but would like some very reastic educational software to learn more about
the sky. It would be great to have closeups and animation.

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Greetings,

I have Starry Nights Backyard edition and am very pleased with it. The
only thing I don't like is that it does not give the coordinates of
celestial objects in RA and Dec., for that feature you need Starry Night
Pro---which is more expensive than the affordable Backyard edition. Starry
Night includes a number of Quicktime movies explaining basic astronomy
concepts and the program itself is quite good at creating animations of
various events like eclipses, etc. Go to Space.com for an idea of what
Starry Night is capable of. For the money, it is a fine program.

I also hear that the latest edition of Red Shift is very good as well.


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