Mars websites???? Help a brother out please!

[vomit]

Hey I just wanted to ask if there is a resource on the 'net that shows what "face" Mars is showing to Earth at any given time?  I know about S & T's site, but wanted to know if there was anything "out there" that would show what is going on at any given time, with a realistic view?  It looks to be somewhat gibbuous tonight.  Thanks!

[akjudge]

Vomit,

If you haven't all ready checked out this site, try it (it is a gold mine)

http://www.calsky.com/cs.cgi/TOC?obs=47117245973004&c=

Or just google Calsky.com

You may have to register (it's free) the first time.  Then click on Mars, then Apparent View/Data and it will give you the current view of Mars from your registered location & time.  Note:  if you pause your mouse over the image, it will list the names of the area under the mouse.

The site will also give you recommended observing lists for nebulae, galaxies, etc.  (It is worth exploring)

Let me know if this is what you were looking for.

Jim

[vomit]

Vomit,

If you haven't all ready checked out this site, try it (it is a gold mine)

http://www.calsky.com/cs.cgi/TOC?obs=47117245973004&c=

Or just google Calsky.com

You may have to register (it's free) the first time.  Then click on Mars, then Apparent View/Data and it will give you the current view of Mars from your registered location & time.  Note:  if you pause your mouse over the image, it will list the names of the area under the mouse.

The site will also give you recommended observing lists for nebulae, galaxies, etc.  (It is worth exploring)

Let me know if this is what you were looking for.

Jim

Jim, many thanlks.  Great site.  A very good resource.  Now I can tell what I am looking at.  My thanks to you!

[StevenSWissler]

It looks like Starry Night shows what Mars looks like at any given time. Next clear night I'll see if it's accurate. There's a free open source planetarium program called stellarium which looks promising. It's a bit buggy on my wife's Vista laptop and it crashed on my xp laptop. Celestia ( another open source free tool ) shows the same "view" of Mars that Starry Night and stellarium shows. Celestia is not a planetarium program, however you can see what Mars will look like from Earth by centering Earth, then zooming to mars.
Check out the image in my post in Planetary Imaging, the cestia view matches the image I took on Feb 16th