Re: finding a galaxy

JIm Townsend wrote:
Eric wrote: 

Maybe I can install that on my wife's machine - (I'm a linux guy) I'll try
it out and see how I do with it.



If you use KDE, try Kstars..  It shows 13,000 deep sky objects..

http://edu.kde.org/kstars/

I couldn't be without it :) 

Here's another vote for both XEphem and Kstars (both free).

By the way, if you are running Gnome, you can still run
Kstars, give it a whirl.

Cheers,
Esmail
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