Sky chart

Mulderandscully · 06-14-2009, 12:16 PM

Welcome to Your Sky, the interactive planetarium of the Web. You can produce maps in the forms described below for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location. If you enter the orbital elements of an asteroid or comet, Your Sky will compute its current position and plot it on the map. Each map is accompanied by an ephemeris for the Sun, Moon, planets, and any tracked asteroid or comet. A control panel permits customisation of which objects are plotted, limiting magnitudes, colour scheme, image size, and other parameters; each control is linked to its description in the help file.

Your Sky provides three ways to view the sky with links, where appropriate, among the various presentations.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

Area-51 · 06-15-2009, 03:15 AM

There are programs like this for linux, which are in 3D. It's kind of interesting, especially for myself, because many of these programs also show some mathematical formuals, which I can use in my physics class.

06-14-2009, 12:16 PM	#1
Mulderandscully Investigator Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: cherryville nc Posts: 237	Sky chart Welcome to Your Sky, the interactive planetarium of the Web. You can produce maps in the forms described below for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location. If you enter the orbital elements of an asteroid or comet, Your Sky will compute its current position and plot it on the map. Each map is accompanied by an ephemeris for the Sun, Moon, planets, and any tracked asteroid or comet. A control panel permits customisation of which objects are plotted, limiting magnitudes, colour scheme, image size, and other parameters; each control is linked to its description in the help file. Your Sky provides three ways to view the sky with links, where appropriate, among the various presentations. http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/ __________________ Last edited by Mulderandscully; 06-14-2009 at 05:50 PM.

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06-15-2009, 03:15 AM	#2
Area-51 Investigator Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 459	There are programs like this for linux, which are in 3D. It's kind of interesting, especially for myself, because many of these programs also show some mathematical formuals, which I can use in my physics class.