Survival Arts

XEphem: The Serious Interactive Astronomical Software Ephemeris

Yesterday I attended a barbeque party of extropian friends up at a buddy's dome house in the Santa Cruz mountains. Well after midnight, those of us still hanging around took our binoculars and did some stargazing, successfully finding M-31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) from memory, and Uranus using a copy of the software ephemeris XEphem from Clear Sky Institute, which I very highly recommend.