On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:18:47 -0800 (PST), stp
wrote:

On Jan 5, 10:43*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
Dudes.....

http://www.stellarium.org/

I've been messing with it for about two hours - it's incredible.

And for zippo - nada - zero - no bucks. *I have some professional
programs for my Celestron telescope that aren't this good.

Amazing.

Wow, what a timely link. Just the other night I was gazing at the sky
with my wife and we got into a heated debate. "Shirley, that can't be
Sirius..."

Mars is very visible in the eastern sky, mid to late evening.