On 4 Sep 2005 04:09:49 -0700, "AA Institute"
wrote:

Anyone here know of an applet that can give you a real time view of the
disk of Mars at a precise instant? I don't have Starry Night pro or
anything like that, but wanted to identify surface markings in
telescopic observations. Which of the two poles is directed toward
Earth at the moment?

Try http://www.calsky.com/ , an excellent online image generator for
astronomical objects.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com