Starry Night 8 - Professional Astronomy Telescope Control Software for Mac. Starry Night Pro Plus 8 is our fully featured flagship program, tailored for the astronomer who wants the very best in-class astronomy software and telescope control experience.

Improved DeepSky Database
Version 8 includes a 36,000 object, up-to-date, cross-referenced database built from various source catalogs

Improved Telescope Control
Starry Night 8 supports all telescopes that are supported by Ascom. Plus, connect SkyFi 3 with Starry Night too.

3D Binary Stars
Version 8 accurately renders stars as 3D bodies with classification color, surface texture and relative radii.

Data Backup and Cloud Sync
Backup your data to our secure cloud storage, sync it across Starry Night & SkySafari, and access it on LiveSky.com.

Redesigned Interactive SkyGuide
Web-delivered multimedia reveals the science of the solar system, stars, galaxies, and the known universe.

OpenGL Graphics
High performance OpenGL graphics set the industry standard for excellence in astronomy software.

Key features include
• Apollo 11 Mission Data
• Data Backup and Cloud Sync
• Improved DeepSky Database
• Improved Telescope Control
• New Dark Theme
• New Audio Descriptions
• Stars and Exoplanets in 3D
• Simple, fast, user-optimized interface
• All-Sky CCD Mosaic
• 5 multi-wavelength full sky surveys
• Fully featured with a complete object database
• Redesigned Live SkyGuide
• Maxim DL Plugin

→ What's New in Starry Night 8:

Data Backup and Cloud Sync
Backup your data to our secure cloud storage, sync it across Starry Night & SkySafari, and access it on LiveSky.com.

Improved DeepSky Database
Explore a new, up-to-date, 36,000 object, cross-referenced database, built from various source catalogs.

Improved Telescope Control
Telescope control has been redesigned to offer a modern, sleek looking, user experience,

Open Astronomy Log
With the international standard for astronomical logging now export your data to Open Astronomy Log (OAL) format.

Sky Calendar
Explore a hand picked list of the most interesting celestial objects to observe each evening.

Audio Descriptions
Hours of descriptive audio for over 400 of the most interesting night sky objects. Click and listen!

Maps & Location Services
Auto-detect your home location and choose additional observing sites quickly and accurately.

Interactive Live SkyGuide
Web-delivered multimedia reveals the science of the solar system, stars, galaxies, and the known universe.

Binary Star Systems
3D models of eight beautiful and accurately rendered binary stars!

→ Features:

Universal Search
New dynamic user-optimized interface, with "Universal Search" for objects, Starry Night files, SkyGuide references, options, events, and more.

High Performance Graphics
The incredibly rich and detailed Starry Night software OpenGL graphics that have set the industry standard for excellence in astronomy software.

Extragalactic 3D Database
New & Exclusive - The Starry Night Extragalactic 3D Database includes over 200,000 galaxies encompassing over 1 billion lights years of space.

Space Missions
New and updating space missions with 30 detailed and accurate 3D models of spacecraft & trajectories for a real flight time experiences.

3D Suns
Every star is now accurately rendered as a 3D body with classification-appropriate color, texture and relative radii.

Updated Messier Catalog
An updated Messier catalog with new breathtaking high resolution images of your favourite star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies.

Analemma Simulations
The Sun's analemma can now be drawn accurately on any planet's surface.

3D Exoplanets
Exoplanets as 3D bodies with proper location, size, orbit and planetary texture. Land on the surface, see a sunset from the surface of Kepler-62e!

Scientific Precision
The most precise planetary positions available (using JPL ephemerides) plus an expanded asteroid catalog with highlighted families and groups.

H-R Diagrams
Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams tell about star age and mass, plotting star luminosity on a vertical axis vs. star temperature on a horizontal axis.

Horizon Panoramas
54 streamable photorealistic horizon panoramas, from Antarctica, to Stonehenge to the Egyptian Pyramids, and much more!

Ephemeris Generator
Ephemeris values are handy for knowing where an object will be in the sky at a particular time. You can export and print it out.

Graph Tool
The Graph offers a way of examining changes in an object’s qualities over time. It is possible to plot more than one object on the Graph at one time.

Updated Surface Maps
We've got new maps of many planets and moons including Vesta, Ceres, and, of course, our favorite dwarf planet Pluto!


Supported Operation System
• macOS 10.12 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel Core processor