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Old 10-07-2016, 11:53 PM
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Best conjunction software?

Is there a good way to organise alerts for conjunctions that may be of interest?

Just playing in CDC and noticed that mars will be within about 1 degree of a 13th magnitude comet (116P/Wild). If there weren't White Walkers riding in from the Bight I'd have a look.

I stumble across this sort of thing fairly regularly. Is there a way to predict it? It would be good to be able to know ahead of time when objects of note above mag 15 are within, say 1 degree of each other (and brighter objects, within, say 5 degrees).

So if a comet was skimming past a galaxy, or an asteroid was floating near a planet, or even star occultations by the moon and planets, I'd like to know.

But I don't have a way to predict this sort of thing without following every damn asteroid and comet in the universe to see where they end up. Anyone know of any good software that can take a few input parameters and spit out a list of things worth having a look at for a certain period?

Cheers + Thanks
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