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    did anyone see how bright Venus was last?.....I spotted it at about 8.00pm in th western sky, and basically have never seen it as bright as what it was last night.
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    Get yourself a software sky viewer, a compass and a protractor and find Venus in the middle of the day. Once you find it on a bright sunny day you will wonder why you never saw it before. No shit, it is obvious when you see it !

    SKYGLOBE was a good one which I have here on a 3.5" stiffy but I don't have a suitable drive.

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    Agreed Skyglobe was a great little Planetarium display in its day. Skyglobe's owner KlassM SoftWare, Inc. no longer exists but the application can be found on the net, the DOS one works OK for me, the windows one crashed

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    A friend of mine - known as "The Mad Professor" - always claimed there was an inbuilt problem with SKYGLOBE, something to do with an error in precession.

    But the program always worked for me....and I never really understood what he was on about !

    I sent just a few bucks to KLASSM and they sent me the recent version (at the time) with no strangles or time-outs on it, never did work out why as the US Postage was more than the few US$ I sent them. Maybe that's why they went bust......The version I had had two run modes, a WINDOZE version and a DOS version, at the time my PC was a 386/33 with 4MB RAM and the DOS version ran a lot faster.

    I must get the disk transferred to a USB drive or a CD and see if it runs on a modern system. The mathematics will still be correct but for the precession problem. I'll let you know how it goes.

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    Stellarium is my favourite, it is totally free and it is like looking at the real thing.


    also available for Linux and MAC
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    hey bulbous, I did see it once during daytime and it really blew me away!!
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    Wait till you discover you can see jupiter too during the day !

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    I want to see smelly old EARTH from a distance.

    A cannon barrel of suitable calibre unfortunately does not exist......

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    Quote Originally Posted by trash View Post
    Wait till you discover you can see jupiter too during the day !
    geez just might download stellarium
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    Quote Originally Posted by nomeat View Post
    Stellarium is my favourite, it is totally free and it is like looking at the real thing.


    also available for Linux and MAC
    That's a great piece of software, totally blown away by it and the kids love it THANKS
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    There is an earth and moon viewer on the web. It has got some browser settings. Windows users can create images like this in real time, on their own machines, as well as view the sky, stars at the horizon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trash View Post
    Wait till you discover you can see jupiter too during the day !
    Not here you can't. I don't know if it's my latitude or what but I have an easier time seeing point sources like stars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nomeat View Post
    Stellarium is my favourite, it is totally free and it is like looking at the real thing.


    also available for Linux and MAC
    Good find thanks

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