In my email inbox I have an offer to purchase STARRYNIGHT PRO PLUS 7 at a 25% discount. I read an older thread here about this, and there were many comments about it not being ready (then) for distribution, though some had it and liked it. Before I spend so much I'd like to know it will work with a Windows 10 system, and feel somewhat assured that many of the bugs complained about were fixed. I'd like something for my pc more robust than Stellarium, which I like, but not as much as Sky Safari Pro or Plus for my tablet.
I'm not too interested in a program to control my CPC. More interested in a visually rich program where I can browse during cloudy nights and kind of self-create my own planetarium shows. I was a planetarium presenter for 25 years at COSI Columbus, Ohio. - Ted Last edited by isoc; at 08:30 PM. Well Ted, I got the same email the other day and deleted it. I am one of those who purchased SNP7 (not Plus) and was disappointed. They might or might not have fixed the biggest glaring errors I found, I don't know, which were: (1) Disappearing Observing Log notes as you enter them.
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You begin entering log notes and it periodically drops them, they just disappear although the file that contains them is still there, but it's an empty file. (2) Disappearing Observing List items on occasion.
I don't know why, but like SNP6 and 6+, if a single Custom Observing List gets 'too large' above like 250 items, it seems to want to truncate and dump items, or not allow further additions. That's been my biggest gripe of Starry Night for the last 10 years since SNP6 was released. I still consider SNP5 as the last good release, 6 just feels bloated, cumbersome, slow and temperamental. Also, I'm not sure if they've fixed the disappearing logs issue yet. E z loader trailer serial number location.
I fought with it long enough last year after I bought it that I finally pleaded with Keiron and he gave me a refund, so I reverted back to SNP6, but don't really use it. One serious shortcoming where Starry Night lags behind other current is the inability to export and share Observing Lists with its own sister application SkySafari, something most other software is able to do at the moment, including SkyTools 3 Pro and AstroPlanner. 
That should've been simple to implement as other desktop software can do it, and it should've been included already IMO. If you're looking to spend that much money on Windows based software, I strongly recommend SkyTools 3 Pro, to use in conjunction with SkySafari at the. While not a true planetarium program, it has just about the best atlas period, compared to any other, even most print atlases.