Comments on: The sky this week http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/04/29/the-sky-this-week-april-29-to-may-5-2007/ Occasional observations about astronomy, astrophotography, and software Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:09:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Kamal Mirtavoosi http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/04/29/the-sky-this-week-april-29-to-may-5-2007/#comment-18124 Kamal Mirtavoosi Mon, 14 May 2007 10:47:44 +0000 http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/04/29/the-sky-this-week-april-29-to-may-5-2007/#comment-18124 hi my friend I am intrested to astronomy and participated to massier maraton resently. I will becom happy to interchange our links and experiments. foregive me my english language is not good. hi my friend
I am intrested to astronomy and participated to massier maraton resently.
I will becom happy to interchange our links and experiments.
foregive me my english language is not good.

]]> By: Vern http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/04/29/the-sky-this-week-april-29-to-may-5-2007/#comment-17449 Vern Sat, 05 May 2007 20:15:00 +0000 http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/04/29/the-sky-this-week-april-29-to-may-5-2007/#comment-17449 Last night the Moon was just below the planet Jupiter which is currently very bright (-2.5 magnitude). I use the star chart program, "Cartes du Ciel", which is free and may be downloaded from <a href="http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/</a>. A star chart program will show you what may be seen in the sky at a particular time. It is very useful for locating planets, comets, asteroids, and deep sky objects or for planning an evening observing session. There are many available, some are free, some are not. You can also use star charts which are available on line such as the one I host for the <a href="http://www.longmontastro.org" rel="nofollow">Longmont Astronomical Society</a> which was written by LAS member Brian Simpson. It is available at <a href="http://www.raben.com/nvsvr/chartinput.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://www.raben.com/nvsvr/chartinput.jsp</a> Just select "Solar System" and then "Moon". The "Night Vision Star Chart" is also available as a free download. Last night the Moon was just below the planet Jupiter which is currently very bright (-2.5 magnitude).

I use the star chart program, “Cartes du Ciel”, which is free and may be downloaded from http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/. A star chart program will show you what may be seen in the sky at a particular time. It is very useful for locating planets, comets, asteroids, and deep sky objects or for planning an evening observing session. There are many available, some are free, some are not.

You can also use star charts which are available on line such as the one I host for the Longmont Astronomical Society which was written by LAS member Brian Simpson. It is available at http://www.raben.com/nvsvr/chartinput.jsp
Just select “Solar System” and then “Moon”. The “Night Vision Star Chart” is also available as a free download.

]]> By: Michele H http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/04/29/the-sky-this-week-april-29-to-may-5-2007/#comment-17446 Michele H Sat, 05 May 2007 19:08:16 +0000 http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/04/29/the-sky-this-week-april-29-to-may-5-2007/#comment-17446 How do you find out which star accompanied the moon across the sky all last night by staying right above it? Probably a planet since so bright?? 5/5/07 How do you find out which star accompanied the moon across the sky all last night by staying
right above it? Probably a planet since so bright??
5/5/07

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