It even gives the specific positions of the sun & moon & planets in a table.
I tried going back several thousand years, and the program seems to include precession correctly.
There are, of course, numerous commercial products that work better, but you have to pay for them.
Tim
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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Lapinski
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:43 PM
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Subject: [Phys-l] astronomy
A colleague asked me this:
Do you know of an online (or other) resource that calculates/shows the positions of various constellations for different days in history, etc.?
Was wondering if anyone knows of a source for this.