help!

[angelicscars]

anybody know when/where to view planets and all using telescope? i can only see the moon. <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> and of course the stars

 

[Saiph]

The four major planets (venus, mars, jupiter, and saturn) are often the brightest things in the sky. So if you identify the brightest stars visible that night, and point your telescope at them, you'll be able to tell which ones are stars, and which are planets (planets actually show up as a something other than a bright point of light).<br /><br />Remember, not all of these will be visible at any one time (which ones, and when, change slowly over the months).<br /><br />As for what's up and where, right off hand I don't remember.<br /><br />If you go to sky and telescopes website, they have an interactive online starmap that'll show you where they are. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p align="center"><font color="#c0c0c0"><br /></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">--------</font></em></font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">----</font></em></font><font color="#666699">SaiphMOD@gmail.com </font><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">-------------------</font></em></font></p><p><font color="#999999"><em><font size="1">"This is my Timey Wimey Detector.  Goes "bing" when there's stuff.  It also fries eggs at 30 paces, wether you want it to or not actually.  I've learned to stay away from hens: It's not pretty when they blow" -- </font></em></font><font size="1" color="#999999">The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[toothferry]

sign up for the monthly Orion Sky Times Newsletter<br /><br />August issue is due out now...<br />

 

[petepan]

Try this shareware program called Skyglobe 3.6<br /><br />It is reasonably easy to use, once you get used to it, but it does have a text doc to help you.<br /><br />It might be basic but it's better than nothing <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />http://coke.physics.ucla.edu/laptag/Astro.dir/astrocls.dir/Labs.html