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Positions of stars and other celestial bodies, meteorshowers, etc.

Southern sky round midnight for see under. Location Amsterdam.

Northern sky round midnight for see under. Location Amsterdam.

Pictures from the shareware computerprogram Skyglobe.

* The long blue areas on both pictures show the area of our milky way, only visible in areas with no or sparely night-light pollution (or moon).

Make your own skymap online with Fourmilab with stars, moon and planets for any time and place on earth.

Amateur and professional binoculars and telescopes to purchase

CELESTRON REFRACTOR TELESCOPE

Celestron NexStar 114 SLT Telescope Using Celestron's patented SkyAlign, simply input the date, time and location into the hand control then slew the telescope to any three bright celestial objects in the sky. And that's it - alignment so easy it's hard to believe! You'll spend your evening observing, not aligning your telescope! More details!

DOBSONIAN REFLECTOR TELESCOPE

LightBridge Truss-Tube Dobsonian - Deluxe It's not just a big telescope. It's a big telescope that goes anywhere. New LightBridge Truss-Dobs from Meade take down and set up quickly, so you can take one of these massive windows on the universe out to your favorite dark sky location with ease. LightBridge Dobs gie you high quality Meade optics, premium components and ultra portability all for about the same price as an ordinary tube Dobsonian. So get a LightBridge Truss-Dob and prepare to cross the universe. More details!

For more of these instruments visit Binoculars.com US, Telescopes.com US or Boatersworld US

Explore the earth from outer space or explore outer space from earth with Google Earth or Google Sky

Meteorshowers in 2008. Source International Meteor Organization.

Shower	Radiant and direction	Morning's maximum	Hourly rate
Quadrantiden	Draco (NE)	4 Jan.	120
Lyriden	Lyra (E)	22 Apr.	15-20
Eta Aquariden	Aquarius (E)	5 May	70+
Delta Aquariden	Aquarius (S)	27 July	20
Perseiden*	Perseus (NE)	12 Aug.	100
Orioniden	Orion (SE)	21 Oct.	30
Leoniden	Leo (E)	17 Nov.	20+
Geminiden*	Gemini (S)	13 Dec.	120

* Moonlight will wash out the fainter meteors in these showers. Radiant is the area where the meteors come from. The showers are seen several days around the mentioned day of morning's maximun. The morning's maximum rounds our planet just for sunrise. It concerns here yearly showers with nearly the same data each year. More about this ...!

What are stars? Stars are suns on large distance. More about this ...!

Rise, transit (in the south) and set of heavenly bodies (sun, moon, planets and stars) for every place and time on earth via the USNO on-line Computer (English).

For the USNO  rise, transit and set times of celestial objects, click the logo.
Needed data:
longitude east 5 degrees,  latitude north 52 degrees, timezone 1 hour east of  Greenwich,  location Netherlands for wintertime.
Timezone 2 hour east of Greenwich for summertime.

Positions of sun, moon and planets for every place and time on earth: download the free  computerprogram Astroclock (Dutch or English dos version) of the author of this web site. More about this ...!

Ancient astrological symbols for our solar system

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The 12 constellations of the Zodiac - What is your Zodiac sign?

g Capricorn

h Aquarius

i Pisces

^ Aries

_ Taurus

` Gemini

a Cancer

b Leo

c Virgo

d Libra

e Scorpio

f Sagittarius

Click here to find your constellation!

More about the twelve constellations of the Zodiac: Astronomical Clock | Poster Store - Zodiac

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