Dashboard Widgets: Starry Night

Starry Night is a great astronomy widget for my Mac

Anyone interested in Astronomy will probably cite Starry Night Pro as the best application star gazing money can buy. Starry Night recently released a free Dashboard widget for Astronomy enthusiasts that is a solid astronomy widget, linking to images found on Starry Night online.

Download Starry Night widget here.

4 Comments

SandyJuly 17th, 2007 at 4:53 am

I downloaded starry night widget. I can’t change
the location. It shows up toronto. Can I delte this widget.

What other things does this widget do. It just takes
me to the website starrynight

steveblueJuly 17th, 2007 at 4:58 am

To change the location, find the lowercase italic i (information) in the lower right corner of the widget. It is invisible, until you hover over it with your mouse. Click it.

The widget will turn around and all the preferences will be available to you.

Click the location tab and type in your postal zip code.

Click the Done button and the Widget will turn back around.

The map will change directions if you press W for West or E for East, etc. The left and right arrow keys will also change the direction by 30 degrees. Up and down keys change the attitude by 10 degrees each push.

Apples and Astronomy at iUseAppleJuly 26th, 2007 at 7:06 am

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CopernicusOctober 27th, 2008 at 4:07 am

I downloaded the Starry Night widget today (October 27th), and could not find the “lowercase italic i (information) in the lower right corner of the widget”, even when hovering over it (but it does appear on other widgets). How do I do to set the widget to the latitude and longitude of my place ?
Thank you in advance !

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