On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:32:44 GMT, in uk.sci.astronomy , "west"
wrote:

What Astronomy program would you recommend that can be used, for instance,
to predict the time of rising of Venus in Hawaii exactly 2 years from now or
the true ecliptic longitude and geocentric distance of the Sun at any given
instance?

Fairly sure StarryNight can do this.

own program. In that case which program would you recommend? May have to be
under Linux OS,

StarryNight runs under Wine, I think.
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Mark McIntyre