For newbie astronomers

Hi, I've always been self taught, I learned english on my own, I've got straight A's on my own. And I've always been intersted in stars, when I was a kid I often stargazed, but couldn't recognize individual starts constellations etc. So about a year ago my friend recommended me a stargaze software: Stellarium. Girls just love when you're showing them stars (but not mummle that they are 50k Kelvin hot). So I started learning and got it pretty fast. You can set your exact location (just compare it with google map and write in coordinates), and many other AWESOME features I recomend it to everyone, top off all it's complety FREE. If you already don't have it download it

http://www.stellarium.org/

I shall ry this out. I appreciate you giving us the link.^_^

yeah, thanks for the link! I tried and I liked it!

I also tried World wide telescope

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

good one too

WOW, stellarium.org is amazing, i downloaded it, you can go ack to 1999 and look at the solar eclipse, (chesham, england)and the zooming in effect is really... effective!!

I just downloaded Stellarium this past week independent of this post--It was recommended in an older IYA podcast. 

Last night I took the laptop up to the rooftop where we looked for meteors for a while.  We also picked out some of our constellations and Jupiter.  Back inside, I got too engrossed in zooming in on Jupiter and its moons. 

Great software!

Let me also say that you might as well listen to the IYA podcasts if you're not doing so already.  Great info and inspiration....

   Thanks for the links