BILLY'S ASTRONOMY PROGRAMS


Billy's favorite friendly "little" programs

Moon Phase displays the current phase of the moon. You can also set any time and date to see what was and or what will be.

Moonman I just came acro--, oops, I mean Billy, just came across this one, it is a nice digital map of our moon, the Moon. Nice tool for learning the surface features ( and more ) of the Moon.

Tonite is a handy dandy little piece of software that Billy found while "strolling on the net one day" that can tell you when the Sun will shine and the Moon will glow on most any day you wish. The amount of actual "dark sky" viewing time is what keeps Billy referring to it time and again.

Planets is another one of those nifty little programs that Billy stumbled onto while spending some time on his pc. This program is a "shareware", but has no real limitations other than the nage screen. Billy likes it mostly for it's ability to display the planet Jupiter and the relationship of the Galilean Moons ( Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto ) at any given time, day, and year.

SAVEING THE BEST FOR LAST

Billy is running a little short of space on his server so he has provided a link to the STSPLUS web site where you can learn more about it's capabilitys and get the updated TLE list as they become availiable.

STSPLUS is the best Earth orbiting satelite tracking progam availiable to date.
Billy uses it when he want's to track NASA's STS Shuttle's and / or Russian's Mir Space Station. With it you can too.
Billy finds it very usful when the Space Shuttle visits Mir so he can check out when the Space Craft's will be over his home town and thus go out and see them as they pass by.
Billy tells us that it's his understanding that this is the very same program that the astronauts use while on the Space Shuttle.
I gotta tell you when Billy first saw this thing he kept saying"This is really really cool", "This is, really, really cool"...

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