Re: Online Star Chart

From: George Roberts (gr@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 09:21:35 EDT

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> pointed me to a great site last year
> (http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/) but I can't get RA
> and Dec easily from this site.

With this website you mentioned, you can keep zooming in
on a particular star and as you zoom in, the RA and DEC
displayed at the top of the screen gets closer to the star
in question (you have to decrease the field of view number
from 45 to 5 and then to 1 degree and so on).

- George Roberts
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