At 2:15 PM -0800 1/15/98, Chris Vedeler wrote:
>I'm in the market for new Planetarium software.
>
>I've got a Mac and have looked at Starry Night and Voyager. I have an old
>copy of Voyager (1.2 I think) that doesn't run on my new computer (275Mhz
>PowerPC) and I have downloaded the demo version of Starry night. There are
>things I really like about each and so I can't make up my mind.

There are several others you might want to try:
http://www.seds.org/billa/astrosoftware.html

>Starry Night gets the vote in terms of the "cool" factor, but seems to lack
>features like conjunction searching and displaying double stars in scale.
>It also makes no calms about being Power PC accelerated.

SN is "FAT", ie it has both 68k and PPC code in the same file.

>Voyager seems to be a more "serious" program but doesn't have the cool look
>and feel of Starry Night...

OTOH, you can add any database you want to SN (if you buy the "deluxe"
version, which also includes the Hubble Guide Star Catalog on CDROM).

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