What should I look for? And also can someone explain star link to me? Thanks in advance!

Hey guys! Im 30, and for the first time in my life I’ve sparked an interest in space and bought a telescope. Space Engine allows you to travel to other locations in the universe (plotting known stars and deep-sky objects on the correct location and fills unknown locations with procedurally generated celestial objects).Īlternatively, you can use software like Stellarium (web, windows, osx, linux, andoid, ios), or Skymap (android) to try to work out what it is/was.Īt this point we typically getting some software like Stellarium or Skymap so you can get an idea of what is/was up in that direction/location/time.

looking for a particular type of astronomy softwareĭon't know if there's software combining both requirements, but Stellarium has quite an accurate way to calculate stellar and planetary positions in the past and future.

If you want to get a sense of how the stars move over time (within a night, and from night to night over a year), a really easy thing to do is to download Stellarium (which is free) or a similar planetarium/night-sky program, and to play with changing the time.

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