Daystar
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Daystar may refer to:
- DayStar DigitalDayStar DigitalDayStar Digital, Inc., was founded in 1983 by Andrew Lewis as a subcontract manufacturer of electronic assemblies and circuit boards. In 1986, the company released memory upgrades for Apple Macintosh Computers, its first product. In 1987 the company began to market processor upgrades exclusively...
, a company that used to manufacture Apple Macintosh clones - Daystar TechnologiesDaystar TechnologiesDaystar Technologies, Inc., dba Daystar Technology was incorporated in October 1998. The company operates out of Buford, Georgia. Daystar Technology is an Apple Authorized Reseller and Apple Service Provider. The company also manufactures and resells XLR8 brand Apple CPU Upgrades and USB Video...
, a company that builds performance upgrades for Apple Macintosh Computers and services the previous company's products - Daystar Television NetworkDaystar Television NetworkThe Daystar Television Network is an American evangelical Christian television religious broadcasting network headquartered near Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Bedford, Texas...
, an evangelical Christian satellite network - Daystar UniversityDaystar UniversityDaystar is a Christian liberal arts university in Nairobi, Kenya.Daystar's original campus is close to Nairobi city centre, but here is no room to expand at that location. Therefore, in the last decade a new campus has been built at Athi River, some 40 km to the south-east of the city, on the...
, a Christian liberal arts college located in Kenya - Earth's SunSunThe Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
, used humorously to imply that the speaker is unaccustomed to being outside in the daytime - Daystar, the name of Cimorene's son in Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest ChroniclesEnchanted Forest ChroniclesThe Enchanted Forest Chronicles is a series of four young adult fantasy novels by Patricia C. Wrede titled Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, and Talking to Dragons....
- Daystar, sometimes used as a reference to LuciferLuciferTraditionally, Lucifer is a name that in English generally refers to the devil or Satan before being cast from Heaven, although this is not the original meaning of the term. In Latin, from which the English word is derived, Lucifer means "light-bearer"...
- Daystar, a virus created to kill vampires in the movie Blade: TrinityBlade: TrinityBlade: Trinity is a 2004 American superhero vampire action film, written and directed by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the screenplays to the first two Blade films...
- Daystar Productions, the production company founded by Leslie Stevens that produced the 1960s TV series The Outer LimitsThe Outer Limits (1963 TV series)The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction, rather than fantasy stories...
and the earlier (less well-known) series Stoney Burke and a few films.