Chris,

I have Voyager II v2.0, having upgraded from v1.0 (and the original Voyager 1.2 before that). Like you, I had problems running on newer machines, and the new version takes care of that.

My feelings about each are the same as yours; I guess you just have to decide what you really need and go from there. I use the Voyager II/SkyPilot version to control an LX200 and like the interface for that, but Starry Night has a plug-in to do the same. Bill Arnett works with Starry Night (beta tester or something -- Bill, jump in please) and can tell you more about that program.

[Doh! Just read the rest of my messages, and Bill already spoke! Shoulda known... ;P ]

The good thing about Voyager is that you can get a good upgrade deal. You will like the CD it comes on; many more images are available from what you have, and the Hubble catalog is also on it. Check out
<http://www.carinasoft.com>
for info on Voyager II, and specifically
< http://www.carinasoft.com/new.html>
for upgrade information. If you upgrade to Voyager II 2.0 now, you will get a free upgrade to 3.0 when it ships (early 98, they say now).

Enjoy,
Tom Wideman


>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.
>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.
>Voyager seems to be a more "serious" program but doesn't have the cool look
>and feel of Starry Night. Voyager does claim to be accelerated for the
>Power PC.
>I'm just looking for input from anyone who had really used these or other
>planetarium software.



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