See https://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/ for original details (September 16, 2006)
Binaries (for Windows x86)
- Download Home Planet “Lite” Edition (1.5 Mb)
- Download Home Planet “Full” Edition (14 Mb)
- Download Home Planet Upgrade (Lite => Full) (13 Mb)
Home Planet Release 3.3a is supplied in two editions. The “Lite” edition is intended for users who wish to evaluate the program and for casual users. It includes all of the functionality described above and has no accuracy or feature limitations, but in order to reduce download time, contains smaller databases (for example, only the brightest 7000 stars instead of 256,000, and a 720×360 pixel map of the Earth rather than one with higher resolution. The Lite edition does not include the collection of images of astronomical objects present in the full version. The Lite edition is less than 1.6 megabytes in size.
The “Full” version of Home Planet includes everything in the Lite edition, plus the larger databases, images, and sound files, which increase the size of the download to more than 13 megabytes—more than many people are comfortable downloading on dial-up connections. If you've downloaded the Lite edition and later wish to upgrade to the Full package, there is a Home Planet upgrade kit available which contains only the components of the Full package omitted from the Lite edition.