I have a telescope and would like to view our planets but have no idea where to point my telescope
2006-12-04 08:40:38 · 8 answers · asked by ERNEST M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Try SkyMaps.com. You can download a great map of the sky, showing all the prominent features for that month, and if you join the mailing list, you get an email newsletter each month with a new map.
2006-12-04 08:47:10 · answer #1 · answered by Whoosher 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try SkyMaps.com. You can download a great map of the sky, showing all the prominent features for that month. Alternatively what wou can do is follow the "Elliptic" - line the Sun travels through and try to notice the not so shiny points and identify them as planets with your telescope. Aprart from that you can expose a photogrpahic film daily and follow the path of these "not so shiny objects" by comparing them with the photo of the previous day. By the end of a month you can pretty comfortably mark the route followed by the planet.
2006-12-05 03:45:36 · answer #2 · answered by Siva 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just buy a yearly observing book (£10) or alternatively take you scope outside and point it at the brightest objects in the sky and you have a good chance of finding one, face south and imagine a line roughly where the sun goes across the sky, planets are usually found along this line named the "Elliptic" also look for the ones that don't twinkle so much. At the moment we have Saturn rising on the east horizon and Uranus is setting in the west.(right now!) if you wait 2 hours Saturn will continue to rise and will be in a good position (SE) to view.
2006-12-04 16:55:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Besides magazines such as "Sky and Telescope" which publishes excellent reports on current planet location, there are websites that offer this service.
2006-12-04 16:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look online for Sky Charts. Check, for example, this website
http://skytonight.com/observing/skychart/3308911.html
In some of the skycharts they allow you to enter date, time, your city and they will show you what exactly is visible in the sky.
2006-12-04 16:47:50 · answer #5 · answered by vmkil96 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
go outside and look
try the HA Ray book
2006-12-04 16:43:23 · answer #6 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are plenty of computer programmes available to help you.
2006-12-05 05:36:04 · answer #7 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This site gives you a geocentric nautical ephemeris for all the planets:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TYPE/TYPE.html
2006-12-04 16:56:58 · answer #8 · answered by Helmut 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋