Stellarium Planetarium Software - February 2012 Jupiter & Venus Conjunction
Channel: Far Lands or Bust with KurtJMac
Date: 27/02/2012

Let's play Stellarium! This is a free open source planetarium software available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It shows a realistic sky, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope from your location.

In this video I give a quick tour and introduction to the basic functions of Stellarium, including setting your location, adjusting the sky and viewing options and selecting specific dates and times. Then, I show the conjunction of the Moon, Jupiter and Venus, currently in progress (as of Feb. 26, 2012)! We finish up with a quick tour of other deep-sky objects visible at this time of year, like the Orion Nebula, galaxies M101 & M51, the Double Cluster and the Andromeda galaxy.

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Get Stellarium for free here: http://stellarium.org

Background music: Tranquility by Kevin MacLeod - http://incompetech.com