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  1. Ar alternatively by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Serious Home Observatories

    you could use a program like Celestia and look into the heavens from your own computer monitor.

  2. Celestia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Beginning Astronomy?

    Celestia is a free OpenGL space simulator for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X . . . It's different than XEphem in that it's not an observing tool, but a graphical tour of outer space. In Celestia you can travel to the planets of our solar system, their moons, over 100,000 stars from the HIPPARCOS catalog, and all of known extrasolar planets. And best of all, Celestia is open source, so if something is missing, you can add it yourself.

    --Chris

  3. neat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Alien Atmosphere Hubbled

    I like articles that talk about celestial bodies because then I can go view them in celestia.

  4. Re:clarification - orbital eccentricity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2 · on 11 New Extra-Solar Planets Announced

    Actually, the newly discovered planet orbiting in the star HD 28185's habitable zone has a fairly low eccentricity of 0.06. For reference, the eccentricity of Earth's and Mars' orbits are 0.0016 and 0.093, respectively. See this diagram and table for more details.

    --Chris
    http://www.shatters.net/~claurel