RE: Was the star of Bethlehem a real astronomical event?
October 22, 2011 at 7:41 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2011 at 7:42 pm by Cyberman.)
(October 22, 2011 at 5:34 pm)CoxRox Wrote: By the way, does anyone know if Stellarium will let you run the stuff that Larson shows on Starry Night? (You have to pay to get the Starry Night programme).
Stellarium is a great piece of kit for when you just want to make some simple quick and dirty observations, or want to know what you would have seen in the sky if only all that cloud wasn't there. I did try to run the simulation on it but it seems to be just too limited I'm afraid. A great program you might like to try - also free, which is good - is Celestia. It's got so many features going for it, I recommend taking a look because I know I won't do it justice. Running our simulation on it does work - sort of - but you're making it do something it doesn't really want to, which can lead to displays of temperament such as slewing the whole sky around in a full circle when you least expect it. Might be worth trying though.
I was lucky with Starry Night, it was a present from someone who had no use for it any more and wondered if I wanted it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
