At the risk of providing "too much information"
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I forgot to mention:
The right ascension of the spot in the sky directly over head is given by the
local sidereal time. On the left hand side of the IIS web page is a panel marked "Your Zones". You can customise this to display your local sidereal time (as well as any other time zones you want).
If you want a program to run on your laptop (if you have one) while you are away from a web connection then have a look here:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...s+clock&page=2
BTW you will find the positions of all the stars, planets and DSOs in catalogues and publications like Astronomy 2008.
Al.