Astronomy Software for Beginners

Starry Night Complete Space & Astronomy Pack

If you enjoy gazing at the night sky, this software pack will show you what the sky should actually look like at your location, light pollution or not. It’s great to be able to check before you go outside.

It’s easy to use and you can easily learn it even if you have no knowledge of any celestial objects. For beginners, to complement your out-in-the-field stargazing activities, this is an ideal pack that has everything you need to get started. You get to see the various kinds of night sky phenomena and explore the Universe in the comfort of your couch. Travel to the edges of the known Universe. Travel through time, from 4713 BC to 3000 AD, and see what the Universe looked like thousands of years ago or what it will look like thousands of years from now.

What you can get from the software:

* See how the night sky looks like from anywhere on Earth;
* View your home location night sky;
* Learn how to identify planets, stars, and popular asterisms such as “The Big Dipper”; and
* Space travel to visit any planet in the solar system, its moons, or the Milky Way.

Highlights of the software:

All new discoveries will be automatically updated into the software.
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On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometers per hour, or more than 22,000 mph. In contrast to optical cameras, radar does not 'see' surfaces. Instead, it is much more aware of the edges and corners which bounce back the microwave signal it transmits. Smooth surfaces such as those on the station's solar generators or the radiator panels used to dissipate excess heat, unless directly facing the radar antenna, tend to deflect rather than reflect the radar beam, causing these features to appear on the radar image as dark areas. The radar image of the station therefore looks like a dense collection of bright spots from which the outlines of the space station can be clearly identified. The central element on the station, to which all the modules are docked, has a grid structure that presents a multiplicity of reflecting surfaces to the radar beam, making it readily identifiable. This image has a resolution of about one meter (about 39 inches). In other words, objects can be depicted as discrete units--that is, shown separately--provided that they are at least one meter apart. If they are closer together than that, they tend to merge into a single block on a radar image. Since this image was taken, the station has expanded and is more than 90 percent complete, including a full complement of solar arrays. Image Credit: DLR
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