Stargazing

[Stu Jackson]

I've been looking for a cost effective star program, and just today stumbled upon this little gem:

http://www.stellarium.org/

The price is right and it's pretty neat and easy to use.  Zoom's cool, too.

[Joe and Carol]

Stu:

One of our great pleasures of sailing is night sky star gazing.  We visually track the space station, find out if our sailor friends know the stars/planets and debate, in layman's terms, Einsteins theories of the universe.  The Milky Way is spectacular from Stockton Lake!

And of course . . . the conversational point of why the moon looks larger as it rises?  Thanks for the post on the stars.

Joe and Carol
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[Jim Hardesty]

Stu,
Thanks for sharing    It's great.  One of the things that I do less of in retirement is night sailing.  I miss it and hope to do more next season.
Jim

[sail4dale]

.....Thanks  ... outstanding program

[Terry Forshier]

FYI ...Iphone users..there are several free apps for finding plants and constellations. Search the app store. I like planets and planet finder. Sailing along at night you can just point the iphone and it shows the horizon and canoutline the constellations etc.