Bob Berman, besides looking a lot like Craig T. Nelson in the picture used by the Almanac, I appreciate your posts. I have spent many hours as a kid on a small hill outside my parents home at night letting my mind wonder as I watched the skies during the early years of NASA, but I never intended to learn about them. In this past year my wife & I have been displaced from our home due to a disaster, but this has given me time to look up again. I have learned more in this year from your posts than in all of the 68 years prior, although I am no where near being even a passive observer. There is likely already one somewhere, but it would be nice to have a live view of the skies which could be dialed in by our zipcode. With this, one could use their phone, pull-up a live view of their sky, but with features pointed out or highlighted in real time. This would make it so much easier for someone like myself to actually learn what is what by actually seeing them while having them identified. This would actually be better than having my dad point with his finger at this or that as that method is not extremely accurate.
Bob Berman, besides looking a lot like Craig T. Nelson in the picture used by the Almanac, I appreciate your posts. I have spent many hours as a kid on a small hill outside my parents home at night letting my mind wonder as I watched the skies during the early years of NASA, but I never intended to learn about them. In this past year my wife & I have been displaced from our home due to a disaster, but this has given me time to look up again. I have learned more in this year from your posts than in all of the 68 years prior, although I am no where near being even a passive observer. There is likely already one somewhere, but it would be nice to have a live view of the skies which could be dialed in by our zipcode. With this, one could use their phone, pull-up a live view of their sky, but with features pointed out or highlighted in real time. This would make it so much easier for someone like myself to actually learn what is what by actually seeing them while having them identified. This would actually be better than having my dad point with his finger at this or that as that method is not extremely accurate.
Again, let me say thanks for your posts!