From: bjorn@tt-tech.se Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:31:03 +0100 My apologies! - 'MIME' did things to my mail, because of trailing spaces, and the 'degrees' symbol. Here is what it should have looked like (?) : Robert H. McNaught <RMN@aaocbn2.aao.gov.au> wrote >> There are many programs available that allow you to plot >> solar-system objects as graphics or ephemerides, but don't >> ask me about them. I just know they exist. I should have added to my last comment, that although Rob Matson's SkyMap also computes/displays the planets and Sun, there is no provision to load other solar-system orbits (and probably not hyperbolic, in the current version) Date/Time: 3/26/1996 20:48:01 UTC Object RA Decl Dist (au) Ang Size ------- -------------- --------------- --------- -------- Sun 0h 23m 46.46s + 2 d.34' 7.2" 0.997884 32' 3.3" Moon 6h 16m 27.48s +17 d.33' 21.0" 0.002676 29'51.3" Mercury 0h 20m 29.19s + 0 d.44' 18.4" 1.349655 0' 5.0" Venus 3h 16m 21.66s +21 d. 5' 50.9" 0.749826 0'22.4" Mars 0h 7m 42.97s - 0 d. 4' 53.3" 2.382234 0' 3.9" Jupiter 19h 6m 44.16s -22 d.25' 15.0" 5.299828 0'37.2" Saturn 23h 58m 5.65s - 2 d.25' 2.2" 10.537741 0'15.8" Uranus 20h 25m 9.11s -19 d.50' 4.1" 20.197928 0' 3.4" Neptune 19h 57m 39.85s -20 d.11' 45.4" 30.505804 0' 2.4" Pluto 16h 14m 1.97s - 7 d.38' 47.4" 29.335190 0' 0.1" Hit any key to return to Main Menu ------------------------------------------------------------ -- b_gimle@algonet.se +46-8-7428086 (home) -- -- bjorn@tt-tech.se +46-8-59095789 (office)-- -- 59.22371 N, 18.22857 E AND member of : -- -- seesat-l@iris01.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de -- ------------------------------------------------------------