Starry Night Small Dome™ Software Highlights:

• Complete 3D Hipparcos, Tycho 2 and database of 16 million stars

• Thousands of famous deep space objects with detailed descriptions from Messier and Caldwell catalogs, Herschel catalog of 400 deep sky objects, and corrected NGC/IC catalogs with over 13,000 deep sky objects

• Comprehensive database of known satellites, comets, asteroids, meteor showers, and extra-solar planets

• Display of planets and all known solar system moons as quality textured, accurately placed 3D objects

• Accurate annual motion of planets, sun and moons over a +/- 100,000 year span

• Constellation overlays, equatorial, galactic and ecliptic grids

• Automatic navigation to any selected planet, moon, comet, asteroid or satellite

• Customizable high-resolution 360-degree panoramas

• “Find” command to locate any celestial object

• Compatible with Starry Night desktop versions

THE DIGITAL STARLAB® USES THE FOLLOWING LESSONS OF THE STARRY NIGHT CURRICULUM™:

• K-4

  • P1: Night and Day

  • P2: Going Through a Phase - Moon Phases

  • P3: Location, Location, Location - Finding Your Way Around the Sky

  • P4: Myth Around the World - Constellations and Stars Lore

• Grade 5 - 8

  • S1: A Change of Season

  • S2: Now You See - Now You don't - Solar and Lunar Eclipses

  • S3: Welcom to the Neighborhood - Overview of the Solar System

  • S4: Moving Out - The Motion of the Planets

  • S5: Big Macs - Meteors, Astroids and Comets

• Grade 9 - 12

  • A1: A Calendar in the Stars - Seasonal Constellations

  • A2: Star Light, Star Bright - The Properties and Life Cycle of Stars

  • A3: Our Little Island - The Milky Way Galaxy

Additional lessons for all three grade levels will become available in the future.