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Old 06-07-2023, 01:32 PM
ReidG
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Yes to Stellarium

"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope."


An excellent product and if you get really keen later can even direct your telescope to what you click on.





It has lots of options in setting up and it can be confusing to beginners but as suggested joining a local group would probably be helpful.


What Stellarium shows is an image intended to display on a dome overhead. What is in the middle is overhead and around the edges is the horizon.


Those constellations were apparently named by people on magic mushrooms and to make it worse they were in the northern hemisphere where things look different. If you have Stellarium they become less important anyway.
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