how to find positons of stars in the caribbean

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how to find positons of stars in the caribbean

#1 Postby msbee » Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:59 pm

hi
I don't know if anyone can help me
friends of mine were sailing in the caribbean.. ( we are located at 18.1 North
and 63.1 West)
they are sail a lot in the Notrtheast USA and they sometime navigate by the stars . they are familiar with the location of the stars and constelaltions in the northeast sky. Everything in the caribbean is at a differnt location since we are closer to the equator, I guess
I once had a web site where you could put in your latitude and longitude and you would get a chart of what the night time sky in your area looks like.
is anyone familiar with this and has the URL?
it would be much appreciated
thanks
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#2 Postby JCT777 » Fri Nov 07, 2003 3:07 pm

That web site would be very interesting to see. I hope that someone is able to answer your question, msbee.
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#3 Postby Stephanie » Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:22 pm

This site looks interesting:

http://einstein.stcloudstate.edu/Dome/c ... tlist.html

It has discussions on the 48 constellations, where they can be viewed from different parts of the world and hemispheres and information about the stars too.
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#4 Postby msbee » Sat Nov 08, 2003 8:36 am

thanks Stephanie
that's a neat site
Wxman57 on the tropics forum also gave me another site.
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/#
this site works great!
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#5 Postby Stephanie » Sat Nov 08, 2003 8:47 am

That one is pretty neat as well! Thanks for the link! :D
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