umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Wayne Hudson) (01/02/90)
I'm looking for a program that will give me the declination (that's the angle above the horizon, isn't it?) of familiar stars in the night sky. I'd like to be able to give it a time, date, & latitude, and the program give me the declination of the star/constellation. (ie I tell it Jan 1, 1990, 12:01 am, and 50 deg. and the star, and it tells me it's altitude). Anything?? -- Wayne Hudson (umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca) "The world needs guts" - Alice Cooper
eaugustu@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Eric P. Augustus) (01/13/90)
In article <1990Jan1.235514.17079@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Wayne Hudson) writes: > > I'm looking for a program that will give me the declination (that's the angle >above the horizon, isn't it?) of familiar stars in the night sky. I'd like >to be able to give it a time, date, & latitude, and the program give me the >declination of the star/constellation. (ie I tell it Jan 1, 1990, 12:01 am, >and 50 deg. and the star, and it tells me it's altitude). Anything?? A program called STARVIEW sounds like what your are looking for. You can look at any part of the sky at any time of the year. A real nice feature, if you have a mouse, is using the pointer to pick a star and it gives all the info about it in the lower right hand of the screen. It's the best star gazer program I've run across. You can find it on Simtel20 in the directory PD1:<MSDOS.EDUCATION>STARVIEW.ARC Hope this helps. -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | 1Lt Eric Augustus (GUS) | "The time you enjoy wasting is not | | eaugustu@blackbird.afit.af.mil | wasted time." - Bertrand Russell | \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/