From: "finkh" <howard.fink@nyu.edu>

Date: September 26, 2009 9:58:49 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: useful tool for observers:  asteroids and more


Wolfram Alpha, www.wolframalpha.com is a handy tool for observers.  It provides real-time data for astronomical objects (and many other things).  Try typing in asteroid 111 and you get Ate, current position, a sky chart, characteristics.  Type in Jupiter and you get the current position of the Galilean Moons, as well as all the usual mass, size, image, etc.  It's available as a widget, a gadget, and iphone application, or a toolbar for browsers.  


Howard Fink