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Terry Hill wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > My apols for not posting for ages, and then when I do it's off-topic... > > I just wondered if there were any other astronomers in the LUG? > Having recently got my grubby hands on a nice Celestron "goto" > Newtonian, I'm thinking about organising a small star party, as I have > access to a nice dark-sky site with basic facilities. Either way, it > would be nice to expand my circle of astro-nuts (sounds painful!). > > Hmm how to get back on-topic...ahh yes, XEphem from the clear sky > institute is a breeze to compile under Ubuntu - highly recommend it > too. Great for tracking objects like satellites and comets. > > It lives here: http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/ > > For a straightforward map of the night sky, stellarium can't be beaten > for ease of use and looks very professionally built: > http://www.stellarium.org/ - again, runs under Ubuntu nicely and is > easy to get up and running. > > Cheers! > > Tel. > > I have been studying this with the Open University s194 introducing astronomy s196 planets: an introduction pending s197 how the universe works I am also a new member of the OU physics society. Would be interested in a star party, as for software i use kstars, Paul -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org Events Lug Bar B Que Sunday 19th August 2007 Cornwall, details on lug site, www.dcglug.org.uk under meetings. http://www.dcglug.org.uk/wiki/?id=Meetings_20070819 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html