Another exceptional feature of Starry Night is its ability to call up
images from the Digitized Sky Survey via the Web. It's so easy, that I
have never used the DSS Web site directly since this was added to SN. You
just get the area in question in one of SN's windows and select a menu item
and (after a possibly long wait depending on modem speed) the very same
piece of sky appears in your WWW browser. The only restriction is that the
field must be less than a half degree square (otherwise the download would
take forever). Other programs use the RealSky CDROMs in a similar manner
but SN's way avoids the cost and hassle and gets 10x better data, too! If
you *really* want to see what a piece of sky looks like, this is the only
way to fly.

Those interested in SN should also check my WWW site
http://www.seds.org/billa/StarryNight/sn.html
for a few additional datagbases and planet images that you can easily install.

---
Bill Arnett "Science is a way of trying
San Jose, CA USA not to fool yourself." -- Feynman

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