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