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.
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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Stu,
Thanks for sharing :clap 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
.....Thanks ... outstanding program
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.