On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:43:02 -0500, 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.

Want to check out those stars up close and personal? Check out Celestia.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

It's another open source, "free" program. Then there's Kstars, but
you'ld have to run Linux to run that one.