Hi all,

Any good online planetarium type software where you can track the future paths of comets/asteroids - would be useful for writing the monthly guide if I could see if a comet passes close to a star or nebula or cluster etc.

Thanks

Neill

Hi Neill,

Hope you are keeping well. How is the head after Galway.

Here is a list of every planetarium software on the net. some free and some you have to pay for.

astro.nineplanets.org/astrosoftware.html

This page lists links to orbital elements of observable comets in formats suitable for loading into a number of popular planetarium-type software packages.

www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/SoftwareComets.html

Carl.

Cheers for that Carl, all is well with myself. Galway was great fun - roll on COSMOS. Off to Amsterdam for the weekend:)

I heard the cake over there is very good