Re: Online Star Chart

From: Skywise (skywise711@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 20:04:55 EDT

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    Jeff Umbarger wrote:
    
    > Hey All,
    >      Does anyone know of an online website I can go to
    > pull up a high resolution image of the stars and place
    > the cursor on that part of the field of interest and
    > read off the Right Ascension and Declination? Ed
    > pointed me to a great site last year
    > (http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/) but I can't get RA
    > and Dec easily from this site.
    > 
    >      Regards,
    >           Jeff
    
    May I suggest instead of an online star chart that you download
    Cart du Ciel. It's 100% free and does what you want. There are
    many libraries that are available to expand it's database.
    
    http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
    
    Brian
    -- 
    Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?
    
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