Star mapping program for the Mac available?

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From: Stephen Jonke - Code 522
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 1990 17:03

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Is there a public domain, shareware, or commercial program for the Mac that
will create star maps based on the current date, time and position on earth?
On my cheapo sinclair QL (which is 68008 based) I have a program written in
BASIC that does an amazingly good job at this, as well as providing basic
information about each of the stars, and detailed information on all of the
planets.  The only problems are its very slow, only covers about 300 stars
(plus Halley's comet), the interface is real clunky, and it doesn't produce
very good printouts of the star maps.  Is there a better program for the Mac?

Steve
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Steve Jonke/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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