CMAS member Michael Kosowsky has written a superb eclipse simulator for his Web site, HeyWhatsThat.com. Because a transit shares all the same mechanics with an eclipse, albeit with a tiny planet instead of a big Moon able to block the Sun, we are forever spared the need to be in the right place at the . . . → Read More: Simulated Transit of Venus
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SkySafari is among the best software for putting a planetarium on your phone or computer. As a beginner, I used it and similar software to learn the constellations. I still use software for finding objects, having never bought paper charts. This is really something for everyone, and it’s on sale now. Anyone with an iOS . . . → Read More: SkySafari on Sale The Transit of Venus on Tuesday, June 5, begins for us in Central Maine at 6:03pm, and continues out of our sight well past sundown. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you miss this transit (or, horrors! if clouds hide it), report to the meeting of the Central Maine Astronomical Society hereby scheduled for the . . . → Read More: Transit of Venus — June 5, 2012, 6:03pm |
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