Solar System, Position of the Planets for 2012

[Stu Skywatcher]

I wanted to know where our neighbouring planets would be relative to earth and how to calculate how they move. Eventually found this, it took a fair bit of digging out to find so I thought I'd share it. I have found it very interesting

Positions of the Planets in their Orbits

[Debostar]

The Stelarium application is also a useful tool for the PC as is googles android app for your mobile or tablet.

[Aenima]

Yes, the Stellarium program is amazing. You can turn your pc into an observatory, or it will guide a goto mounted scope to any celestial object and track it. You can give it your location to see the sky as you would see it but as though your screen was a telescope - zoom in on the moon or further out to see jupiter and get good views of its multiple moons. It gives you an entire solar system and the vital info like the position, distance, magnitude,co-ordinates and even shows satellites as they drift across the sky.

A Must for any sky watcher....

[Stargazing_Cliff]

This is really awesome site that shows planets , stars

Solar System Scope

and soon new site they working on http://www.sunaeon.com/

[Aenima]

Thanks for the link to solar system scope, it looks great.

Jay

[malc-c]

Is there ever a time/date where the planets effectively line up as per the tomb raider film ?

[Stu Skywatcher]

Is there ever a time/date where the planets effectively line up as per the tomb raider film ?

Wow, there's a thought. If the answer is yes then the frequency would be years and years apart = a very large number x 10 to the Brian Cox i reckon.

Stargazing_Cliff thanks for the link to Solar System Scope, it's great, oh how the hours wizz by while I've been playing with it