User`s guide

182 Starry Night User’s Guide
AllSky CCD Mosaic
Have you ever wondered what it would be
like to have an interactive, full-color
photographic star atlas fused with a
powerful desktop planetarium? Starry
Night now offers you the most realistic
rendition of the night sky by presenting
you with the AllSky CCD mosaic of the
sky that can be viewed from any location
on Earth. The full-color AllSky image is
precisely aligned to the Starry Night
computer generated stars and databases.
We have named this image ‘AllSky’
because it provides uniform coverage from
pole to pole — the whole sky is a single
picture. See the entire Milky Way in
exquisite detail and then zoom in to
explore dust lanes and nebulae. Why have
dots and circles if you can see an actual
photo of a star or deep sky object!
Exploring the night sky has never been
this much fun.
Turning on the AllSky image: Open the
Options pane and expand the Stars layer.
Click on the “AllSky Image” checkbox to
turn it on.
Note: Turning on the AllSky image will
turn off all other image databases by
default.The AllSky image is overlaid on
top of the computer generated stars. This
allows you to see an actual photographic
image of the stars while still being able to
place your cursor on top of any star and
identify it.
Tip: The AllSky image presents the entire
sky as a full-color, seamless mosaic, and at
several resolution levels (5 in all). As you
zoom in, a message appears on the upper
right corner of the main window informing
you that a new image is being loaded in.
As you scroll to adjacent areas in the sky,
new images are loaded at a resolution
level dependent on your zoom (field of
view).
AllSky Options
Click on the “AllSky Image” name in the
pane to open a dialog box with options for
the AllSky image.