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Re:Stellarium Web: Online Planetarium by autocorr on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:43PM (#17906473)
Stellarium [0] is such a great project. We even used it in an upper-division college observational astronomy course to perform the historical experiment to measure the Earth-Sun distance (the astronomical unit or au). It was a lot of fun, we mock-observed the transit of Venus [1] from two different latitudes to perform the same calculation done in 1769 on James Cooke's expidition from Tahiti [2].

[0] http://stellarium.org [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1769_Transit_of_Venus_observ...

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