Once I had set all these configurations, I saved a new 'default' settings file. I went through many dialog boxes and options displays which are located in many different (but logical) places in the program before I had Starry Night Pro Plus configured based on how I have used other desktop planetarium programs. If you want the changes to be applied on every launch of the program you have to explicitly save the changes as a new 'default'. They are specific to just that session with the program. When making changes to the various settings, it is important to remember that these changes are NOT automatically saved. The reason I suggest this is that Starry Night Pro and Pro Plus are very powerful programs with so many features and capabilities that it may be awhile before the user needs to use some of the more advanced features. Most users may just want to do some initial setups for some of information, deferring other configuring until actually using those parts of the program. Starry Night has many user-configurable settings that control what information is displayed and how that information is displayed.

There are missing checkboxes at the top which only appear if you mouseover the blank area: I did discover a bug when setting the HUD (Heads Up Display) preference: Next, I modified a few of the various settings and looks. The text 'Near Mount Lemmon IR Observatory, USA' is still showing even though I selected to View From my Home location. The horizon is still using the default and the Side Pane (on the right) is still showing its default views. Upon launch this is the default look that comes up, as seen on my iMac 27':

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