Planetarium Software Options
Don’t be forced to use whatever CD comes with
your text—select the software that works for you.
Choose either Starry Night™ or TheSky Student
Edition™ based on your own personal preference.
Starry Night 6.0 contains data on 1 million stars
and 110 deep-space objects including galaxies,
star clusters, and nebulae. Choose an exact location on Earth
or from elsewhere within 20,000 light-years of our solar system
and view the sky from there. This user-friendly and fun software
even allows students to create personal QuickTime® movies of the
experience.
TheSkyX Student Edition for Mac or Windows turns students’
computers into powerful personal planetariums. Loaded with data
on 1 million stars and 13,000 deep-sky objects with images, it
lets students view the universe from any location on Earth at any
point in time from 6,000 years ago to 10,000 years in the future.
Students will see the sky in motion, view constellations, see moon
phases, search the database for objects, display both lunar and
solar eclipses, print star charts, locate and simulate Iridium fl ares
and more.
Enhance students’ understanding
of the scientifi c method
withVirtual Astronomy
Laboratories. Focusing on 20
of the most important concepts
in astronomy, these labs offer
students hands-on exercises that complement text topics. Instructors
can set up classes online and view student results or students
can print their reports for submission, making the labs ideal for
homework assignments, lab exercises, and extra-credit work.
Night Sky Planisphere
This planisphere, available in 3 specifi c latitude settings, is an ideal
portable reference for observational exercises.Instant feedback and ease of
use are just two reasons that
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you deliver, collect, grade, and record assignments via the web.
And now, this proven system has been enhanced to include select
material from Foundations of Astronomy, Eleventh Edition.
With Enhanced WebAssign you can assign select end-of-chapter
problems and collect student scores in an online gradebook.
Special problems ask students to analyze photos and graphs,
manipulateActive Figures, or assess their conceptual knowledge.ALSO AVAILABLE!
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Student edition of text: ISBN 13: 978-1-4390-5036-
ISBN 10: 1-4390-5036-
Student edition of text with Virtual Astronomy Labs:
ISBN 13: 978-1-1111-1644-6 ISBN 10: 1-1111-1644-X
Student edition of text with Starry Night Planetarium software:
ISBN 13: 978-1-1111-1401-5 ISBN 10: 1-1111-1401-
Student edition of text with SkyX College Edition Planetarium
software: ISBN 13: 978-1-1111-1403-
ISBN 10: 1-1111-1403-XStudent edition of the text with The Night Sky Planisphere Latitude
20-30: ISBN 13: 978-1-1111-1633-0 ISBN 10: 1-1111-1633-
Student edition of the text with The Night Sky Planisphere Latitude
30-40: ISBN 13: 978-1-1111-1634-7 ISBN 10: 1-1111-1634-
Student edition of the text with The Night Sky Planisphere Latitude
<40: ISBN 13: 978-1-1111-1632-3 ISBN 10: 1-1111-1632-
Student edition of text with Enhanced WebAssign:
ISBN 13: 978-1-1111-1424-4 ISBN 10: 1-1111-1424-Student Textbook Ordering Options