Re: [NTLK] Going for a Newton

Wow, this is really cool. I just took my almost 3 year old boy Ben and 4+
year old Kaelyn with wife on their maiden tent camping trip and we kept them
up for schmores and stargazing. It would have been really nice to be able to
tell them what this cluster of what looked like three stars were and other
bodies...

Time to find my UNNA CD's... Oh, I have them on my laptop! Time to IrDA them
to the Newt's! Thanks Eckhart!

Best Regards,

Paul Curtis
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Subject: Re: [NTLK] Going for a Newton

On 8/8/06, Tony Kan <tonykan@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> Have you discovered Starchart yet; I took my 2 year old outside and
> identified Jupiter for him a couple of months ago. My wife was impressed.

Ha! I did the exact same thing. I was watching the sunset a few weeks ago
with my three older kids, and after, the moon was out, and this bright
planet above it, to the right. Looking at it through binoculars, it looked
_huge_. I wasn't sure what it was, so I pulled out my Newton with Sky Guide,
and discovered it was Saturn, I believe (I don't remember now). This is an
example of software I don't have on my Palm. ;-)

There are four programs I am aware of for astronomy, StarChart, Sky Guide,
Planet Finder and Moon. Any more I'm forgetting or not aware of? I feel like
I'm missing something...

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