What's in the sky each day in 2006!

[Intrigued]

Want to know what's going on up in the sky all 365 days of this year (2006)?

Check it out, FREE, tons of information too!

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/whatsup.html

[Corey]

Today on Digital Life TV they profiled a new ($400) handheld device which you can point at stars to identify them and/or use to guide you to a star. I think it does constellations too. They said there's 6,000 stars or so built in. It also gives you info on each star including scientific data, etc. on the little LCD screen.

http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digit...1/07/4188.aspx

[Intrigued]

That's pretty neat!

[Corey]

They figure eventually it'll be integrated directly into telescopes.

[Corey]

Here it is:
http://www.celestron.com/skyscout/

[Lorne]

I'll have to tell my Dad about this...he's designing a revolving art studio which he plans to connect to a computer so it can track any celestial object, e.g. the sun throughout the daytime, or a nebula to take celestial photographs. I didn't ask him why he'd want his whole welding studio to follow the sky like that...with my Dad the answer as often as not is just because he can.

Whether it actually gets built is another question (if I had a penny for every idea my Dad has announced that was never realized, I could probably buy Canada)...it'll be a few years before he can even start on the studio so there's no telling what his plans will be when he gets there.

[Corey]

Awesome. Nice thing about that unit is that it's reasonably priced. Anyhow if your plans don't exceed your resources you just ain't livin'. Go dad go.

[pjborg]

Here's a way cool site. A new picture each day, with explanations and more than ten year's worth of archives.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

[Corey]

Sweet.