Is there a website that can tell the current location of the planets compared to the earth?

Answer 1

A mechanical version of this is called an orrery. I searched for
orrery online
and found the following:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html

On the first text line of that page, click on the links to
"entire solar system"
or
"inner planets"
and I think you'll see what you want.
(Note that the orbits are plotted on a logarithmic scale by default. To change to the actual scale, click the radio button for "real" instead of "logarithmic", and then click on "update".)

To go to those links directly, click on the following:
entire solar system:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar/action?sys=-Sf
inner planets:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar/action?sys=-Si

If your goal is to find the planets in the night sky, use the following link
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/ataglance
and scroll down to the bottom for information on the planets.

-- added later:
For another similar question in this group, faesson suggested the following web site:
http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~koppen/orbitviewer/halley.html

This is another online orrery. It's actually for Halley's comet, but it includes all the planets and has a more elegant interface than the fourmilab site given above.

Answer 2

This Site Might Help You.

RE:
Is there a website that can tell the current location of the planets compared to the earth?

Answer 3

I use these 2.

Answer 4

The one I use is
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/

One snag is that you must provide the name of an asteroid.
Use Eros (it is their own example).

It then takes you to an applet that gives you the orbits of all planets plus the asteroid you selected.

You can centre it on Earth (below the orbit diagram) and use the slibe bars to change the tilt of the orientation. This way, you can visualize how other planets are lined up (or not) from Earth.

There is also a way to get ephemerids for any objects (including planets). Great for someone like ne who needs the actual numbers, but otherwise not very user-friendly.

Answer 5

Try space.com. Good luck and Merry Christmas.

Answer 6

Try www.space.com and find the place where they talk about the 'Night Skey' and you will find most of what you want.

Answer 7

Probably, just Google it, you're bound to find SOMEthing!

Answer 8

http://www.pwr-tools.com/simsolar/ has a nice download if you don't want too much precision

Answer 9

Googleearth.com try it it might work

Answer 10

google it