Neat demonstration: "Celestial Map of... Stars.."
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- Subject: [mg110722] Neat demonstration: "Celestial Map of... Stars.."
- From: telefunkenvf14 <rgorka at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 08:18:50 -0400 (EDT)
Group: I subscribe to the Demonstrations Project RSS feed (http:// demonstrations.wolfram.com/feeds/rss.xml) and came across the following, recently published demonstration: "Celestial Map of Constellations, Stars, and Planets, by Eugene Stenly. http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CelestialMapOfConstellationsStarsAndPlanets/ (1) It takes a while to load the necessary data, so be patient when it executes. (2) Your location should automatically load as the default. (3) I'd suspect one could learn quite a few tricks from the code; the interface is full of features. Happy 4th! -RG