Free starry software for mac

Starry Night 6.3.3 revolutionizes the way to increase your in-the-field observing success.

Use the Events Finder to choose targets, or make your own Observing List for a specific night or for specific objects of interest. Print out three-view starhopping charts customized to your equipment that effortlessly guide you to challenging objects. With extensive data sets, advanced telescope control, and comprehensive observational tools, Starry Night Pro is a powerful program designed for the serious astronomer. Transform your computer into a sophisticated virtual observatory.

Starry Night Enthusiast is perfect for learning your way around the night sky. With it you can view the sky as it will appear from your very backyard or from any planet.
See the sky tonight, the sky last week, next year, or when you were born. Have Starry Night Enthusiast automatically identify constellations as you look at them. Use Starry Nights exclusive LiveSky.com connection to bring up more information from the web on thousands of objects.
Starry Night Enthusiast includes over a million stars, all the planets, positions of the Messier objects and stick figures of all the constellations. Travel in time from 4713 BC to 9999 AD and even see what the night sky looked like on your birthday. Watch phases of the moon, trace orbits of planets and comets, blast off and visit a planet or star up to 20,000 light years away, make QuickTime movies and more!
Enhancements:
- Location Markers can now be assigned to any predefined location on Earth or any other planet
- Horizon panoramas can now be associated with individual planet locations
- Stars now show a spectral class in the dynamic Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams and Info pane
- 3D object models can now display textured surfaces
- Asteroids positions have been tuned and now calculate more precisely
- Applescripting added (Mac only)
- "Universal Binary" compatible (Starry Night 5.8 runs on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers).

Desktopia is a brand new customization concept for MacOS X: if you are one of those that are always seeking for a new ways to improve the look of your mac then desktopia is the right choice.

Thanks to its very simple and unobtrusive interface you will be able to configure desktopia to automatically change your desktop picture based on a specified time of the day. For example a beautiful sunrise at 7:00AM or a starry sky at 10:00PM. Just drag&drop the pictures that you have chosen on desktopias window, set the time, and voila ! Like they say... "set it, and forget it!"

Desktopia is bundled with a specifically designed wallpaper-suite by Laurent Baumann. But you could also take pictures of your own garden at various times of the day!

Whether at home or at work, keep Starry Night astronomy software at your fingertips. Faster than a shooting star, the Moon Exploration Widget will bring the sky for any location to your Macintosh OS X Dashboard in an instant.