Students may print out a chart for the night sky and go find the constellations that are up. A workbook Voyages through Space and Time, Projects for Voyager II, The Dynamic Sky Simulator, written by Jon K. Wooley can be purchased to use with the program. A Windows 95 version is to be published soon. This program, also by Carina Software , was written especially for students in elementary through high school. Similar to Voyager II, it also includes movies depicting the changing constellations and relates the legends surrounding them.
Animations show eclipses, meteor showers and cycles of night and day on Earth.
It was written for Macintosh and can be purchased by contacting the address above. In Education is a program of the Special Studies Office at the Space Telescope Science Institute. At their site are excellent HyperCard programs to download showing planets, Hubble images, the Moon, impacts from space and Cepheid variables in M100. HyperCard player is available at the site. The HyperCard programs are for Macintosh.