User`s guide

156 Starry Night User’s Guide
Quicktime movies: You have permission to
use QuickTime movies you have made
with the Starry Night software for non-
commercial purposes. This does not apply
to the multimedia video content that exists
in SkyGuide or DVD’s. Some of the
multimedia video content has been
licensed from other sources and
Imaginova does not have the right to sub-
license such content. Include the following
credit:
Starry Night images are used with
permission from Imaginova Corp. Starry
Night is a registered trademark of
Imaginova Corp.
Publishing Star Charts Generated by
Starry Night:
Individuals may use star
charts generated by Starry Night in
publications (books, periodicals,
newsletters, etc.) provided a suitable
copyright statement accompanies the
chart(s).
Star charts generated by Starry Night
(Title of Program and Version Number) ©
copyright Imaginova Corp. All rights
reserved. www.StarryNight.com
Note: Some of the photographs supplied
with Starry Night are copyrighted and are
redistributed by Imaginova with
permission from the author or publisher.
AllSky CCD Image: User’s of Starry Night
Pro Plus should be aware that the AllSky
CCD Image and Associated Data is ©
2005 Main Sequence Software Inc. All
rights reserved.
Imaginova cannot grant permission to use
this material.
Exporting Sky Data
Selecting File->Export Data from the
main menu creates a text file which
contains data for all of the objects visible
on the screen in Starry Night. You will be
asked to name the file and choose a
directory to save the file in.
The new text file only contains data for
those objects displayed on screen, so you
can use Starry Night’s database controls
and filters to create datasets for almost
anything you can think of. A few
examples:
1 All stars within 100 light years of
Earth.
2 All satellites above the horizon from
your current location.
3 All open clusters in the NGC/IC
catalogue.
The key to creating any dataset is first to
use the database controls to ensure that
only the objects you are interested in
appear onscreen (for example, if you want
to create a dataset of bright stars, turn off
all other databases).
In the text file that is exported, each type
of object has different data fields.
For stars:
1 Tycho-2 catalogue number
2 Hipparcos catalogue number