[PLUG-TALK] Where's Venus?

Mel Andres mel97215 at comcast.net
Sun Apr 22 20:02:32 UTC 2018


I have an app called SkyView Lite on the iPhone. Have you looked at 
that? It supposedly has shown me the constellations and the stars 
within, planets, the ISS, and Hubble.

Mel


On 4/21/18 3:51 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Is there a simple web or desktop app that uses clock
> time and GPS location to identify the brighter objects
> in the night (or daytime) sky?  Extra bonus points for
> a skyview app that includes the realtime positions of
> satellites computed from their orbital elements, and
> aircraft from realtime flight tracking information.
>
> If ordinary people can easily identify what they see in
> the sky, they may be slightly less prone to hypothesize
> alien spaceships.  And if enough people from widely
> different locations photograph a moving object that is
> NOT asily explained, perhaps they will discover something
> new and interesting.
>
> Keith
>




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