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Showing posts with label night sky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night sky. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Stellarium - The Night Sky

 


A free downloadable powerful planetarium astronomy program that shows the night sky anywhere in the world. The display moves with a timer to show the changing night sky or can be locked for a specific time. Great for teaching about space probes in current events and astronomy in general. Once the program is opened press the “h” key for command information including exiting. Click on the configuration box on the lower left task bar and click on location. On the map click on the location you want (latitude and longitude specifics will help). The lower right task bar controls the time. Thirty minutes of playing with this program and its task bars will make you an expert. This program is very impressive.  You can also use the web version and not do the download.  The main page can be found by clicking here and the web version of the program can be found by clicking here.



Monday, September 18, 2017

Planetarium

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If you are teaching a unit on Astronomy you might use this site.  On this website you can put in where you live and you will see the night sky based on that input.   You could also choose not to put in where you live and just cruise around the earth looking at the night sky.  To see this website click here.