Is there a site on the web that will produce an image of the night sky
on any given date & time at a specific latitude?

Thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 28 Mar 2005 18:00 PST

Is this the kind of thing you're looking for?

http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

Controls are here:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/help/controls.html

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Clarification of Question by uzzz-ga on 28 Mar 2005 19:15 PST

A quick review of the links provided shows that this does produce a
wide variety of images of the night sky. Specifically I am looking for
an image of the entire sky that a viewer would see looking up on any
desired night. Ideally this would be similar to the round,  white on
black images, that we frequently see shown alongside newspaper &
magazine articles about current night skies. If this is possible
please post as an answer. Thank you for your interest and especially
for the rapid response.

Regardzzz

Uzzz

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 28 Mar 2005 19:24 PST

uzzz-ga,

This isn't an answer to your question...pinkfreud has pretty much
taken care of that for you...but I wanted to give you a link to
Celestia, one of the coolest free software programs around:

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

You can not only see the stars from any position on earth, but pretty
much any position in the galaxy!

It's not a small download, but it's worth it.

paf

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Clarification of Question by uzzz-ga on 29 Mar 2005 03:54 PST

Good Morning pafalafa-ga

What a fabulous link! A person could get lost there spending hours
viewing the tremendous work. Thank you for the information.

Best regardzzz

Uzzz

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 29 Mar 2005 12:14 PST

uzzz-ga,

Glad you liked it.

By the way, at the fourmilab link that pinkfreud gave you, you can
indeed geta map of the night sky WTIH the horizon in place, just by
using the "show horizon" link that appears at the bottom of each
skymap you create.

For instance, here's the horizoned map of the sky from my hometown of
Washington DC:


http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Yourhorizon?lat=38.900000&lon=77.016700&azimuth=0&z=2&elements=


paf

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Clarification of Question by uzzz-ga on 29 Mar 2005 13:05 PST

Good afternoon Paf

I agree that the fourmilab link did produce an image of the night sky
on any given date & time at a specific latitude. Pinkfreud-ga did give
me the answer that I had listed and I am willing to accept it is an
'Answer'.

The fourmilab links produce quite an array of images. Ideally I would
like to be able to get an image very similar to those often found next
to monthly astronomy articles such as in the Sunday New York Times but
I should be more specific in a supplementary question. I hope 'Pink'
will post her information as an answer.

Thank you for your time & contribution to this question. Should you or
another Researcher be fortunate enough to find a way to get those
newspaper astronomy sky images I am willing to post a  directed
'Question'.

Best regardzzz

Uzzz

Uzzz,

Thankzzz for accepting my suggestions as your answer. I've reposted
the links below.

Fourmilab: Your Sky
http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky

Fourmilab: Your Sky Controls
http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/help/controls.html

StarCalc Home Page
http://m31.spb.ru/StarCalc/main.htm

Heavens Above
http://www.heavens-above.com/main.asp

Sky and Telescope: Interactive Sky Chart
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/article_1220_1.asp

...And one more goodie. This software sounds interesting:

SkyMap: Information
http://www.skymap.com/smlite_info.htm

My Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: "sky chart" OR "sky map" OR "star map"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22sky+chart%22+OR+%22sky+map%22+OR+%22star+map%22

Best,
Pink

With great speed, skill & knowledge you succeeded in finding the
answer to the words of my question.

The extra links were very kind of you to add and are very much appreciated,

Thank you and I hope we meet again soon.

Uzzz,

I'm glad the link I posted was of some use; since it was not what
you're truly looking for, I prefer not to post it as an answer.

This software might interest you:

http://m31.spb.ru/StarCalc/main.htm

~Pink

These sites may also be of interest:

http://www.heavens-above.com/skychart.asp

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/article_1220_1.asp

Good evening pinkfreud-ga

With great speed, skill & knowledge you succeeded in finding the
answer to the words of my question. The fourmilab link does provide an
answer. I am willing to post a more specific question for 'what I'm
truly looking for'. Additionally I wish to thank you for the three
links that you provided in the comments. I loved the skyandtelescope
link.

Please post your work as the answer. Thank you. I hope we meet again soon.

Very best regardzzz

Uzzz

Thank you for the kind words, the five stars, and the generous tip!

~Pink