posted 12-08-2004 07:29 AM            

Any of the good planetarium software packages - like Starry Night, SkyMap,Distant Suns,Redshift and should let you see the planetary alignments on any date .

I know Starry Nights Backyard and Starry Night Enthusiast does.

Starry Nights Enthusiasts was given away as freeware CD software on the magazine PC Pro January 2005 magazine. This was still out on good newstands in UK earlier this week.
It may be available in USA at good news stands or newsagents or the better bookshops like BArnes&Nobles??

You just set the "viewing date" date into the program and the alignment is then shown.

You can go forward or backwards with dates for most of the above programs. I do this quite regularly - as it happens - as I look at different alignments when Apollo missions and Mars probes were operating.

If you get 'stuck' let me know the dates your'e interested in and I'll run the software and take an image for you

Phill
UK

posted 12-08-2004 03:53 PM               

I'm going to check out the magazine rack at the local bookstore tomorrow.