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Re: [Phys-l] astronomy



You could use any of the web-based star charts.  For instance, this one works 
pretty well:  
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky

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
To: phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
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.

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