How to find the Total Solar Eclipse of Feb 26th, 1998 using MyStars!
- Make sure that planets & the moon are enabled, the moon can only be enabled if your copy of MyStars! is registered.
- View / From your location
- View / At / Gren. Mean Time Feb 26th, 1998 16:00 OK
- To determine what time this is in your time zone: View / At (click Local Time) OK
- Click on the Sun or Moon in the toolbar (or View / Towards / Object / Sun,Planet,Moon/Sun)
- Zoom in x 64
- Animate, clock offset: 1 minute, frame rate: full speed, Start (this will preview the eclipse)
- Or: clock offset: real-time. (this will show you the eclipse in real time)
- Note: The moon may not eclipse the sun from your location, or may be below your horizon at the time of the eclipse. But it should be visible as a partial eclipse from Canada to Chile for example.
- Note on Accuracy: The start, maximum and end times of the eclipse should be accurate within 2-6 minutes, and the positional accuracy within 1/10 degree
How to find the Partial Solar Eclipse of Sept 1-2, 1997 using MyStars!
- Make sure that planets & the moon are enabled
- View / From your location
- View / At / Gren. Mean Time Sept 1st 21:45 OK
- To determine what time this is in your time zone: View / At (click Local Time) OK
- View / Towards / Object / Sun,Planet,Moon / Sun
- Zoom in x 64
- Animate, clock offset: 1 minute, frame rate: full speed, Start
- Note: The moon may not eclipse the sun from your location, or may be below your horizon at the time of the eclipse. But it should be visible as a partial eclipse from Australia, and New Zealand for example.
How to find the Lunar Eclipse of Sept 16, 1997 using MyStars!
- Make sure that planets & the moon are enabled
- View / From your location
- View / At / Gren. Mean Time Sept 16st 16:00 OK
- To determine what time this is in your time zone: View / At (click Local Time) OK
- View / Towards / Object / Moon (or for variety try View/Towards/Object/Umbra)
- Zoom in x 64
- Animate, clock offset: 1 minute, frame rate: full speed, Start
- The moon will cross into the penumbra, then into the umbra, where it will eclipsed by earths's shadow for more than 3 hours.
How to find comet Hale-Bopp using MyStars!:
- View/From your location
- View/At/Reset-now
- View/Towards/Object/Comet Hale-Bopp
- Animate by hour / 1 frame per second
- If the sun is down, but the comet is above the horizon, then you can see the comet!
Other tips:
- The moon and umbra are only shown in registered versions. Also, the umbra is only shown when the moon is within 15 degrees of it (at full moon).
- Remove the horizon (View above horizon only - off) for better animations.
- Animation speeds are increased by decreasing the number of objects visible.
- Calculation speed are increased by not drawing constellation boundaries.
- Watch the earth's rotation: View Towards Equatorial North Pole. Animate by hour.
- Try viewing the solar eclipse of 1994/5/10: View Towards Sun. Animate by minute.
- Watch moon phasing and planet motion: View Towards Ecliptic North Pole. Animate by day.
- Watch the moon get closer and further from earth: View Towards Moon. Animate by day.
- Watch Venus get closer and further from earth: View Towards Venus. Animate by month. Zoom In.
- Watch the seasonal motion of the sun: View Towards Direction Horizon South (or North if you live in the southern hemisphere). View at local noon. Animate by civil day.
- Don't Forget! Right click allows you to toggle Full Screen View.
- It is documented that in 1769, Captain Cook observed a transit of Venus from Tahiti before sailing on to discover the east coast of Australia. What did Captain Cook actually see? Try this:
- Planetarium
- Objects Planets Show All
- View From Tahiti
- View At 1769/6/3 Local standard time 9:00AM
- View Towards Venus
- Zoom Max
- Animate full-speed by minute offset
- Transit starts at 9:20 AM and ends at 3:20 PM.
- Stars too small when printing? Simply change their brightness in the stars dialog before printing.
- Some people say that the ancient Chinese calendar officially started almost 4000 years ago. A date is suggested of Feb 26, 1953 BC, because of the wonderful multiplanet conjunction visible just before sunrise on that date. Try It:
- Planetarium
- View from China, Harbin
- View at 'BC 1953/2/26' Local standard time '07:00'
- View Towards Mars
- Zoom in to x8
- Now try the orrery view
- Are there any recent multi-planet alignments? Try May 5, 2000 from the orrery!
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