Help with 3 star alignments.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Hi all,

Okay I need some help in choosing three stars for a three star alignment. Some of you guys have GOTO hand controllers that actually chose the stars for you, but for us that dont have that option yet is there someway of doing it? I keep selecting stars but I cannot get the goto's to work because the stars are wither to close in RA or too close in Dec.

Can you guys give me some idea what stars I can use at around 9pm or 10pm at the moment?

Is there software available that can help me work this out or a website I can goto.?

[ving (David)]

canopus
mai... errr the one in carina
and the eye of the bull.... starts with A but has escaped me...

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

canopus, regulus, rigel, betelguese,spica, sirius, procyon, acrux, bcrux,the pointers, castor, pollux.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by ving

canopus
mai... errr the one in carina
and the eye of the bull.... starts with A but has escaped me...

aldeberan

[ving (David)]

yup thats what i use.

canopus, alderbaran and miaplacidus

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Thanks Geoff for the names, but I was more after how to chose the stars for the alignments. At least I have some star names to go by though

[ving (David)]

oic!

i usually go for one north one south and one elsewhere... like east or west... but i realise this probably helps you little

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Thats okay David, just curious, how did you come to get those star names in the first place? Was it on the controller?

[ving (David)]

yeah, but i had no idea where they were so i looked them up on cartes

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by ving

yeah, but i had no idea where they were so i looked them up on cartes

Thats what I have to do

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Thanks I will see if these will work.