[IAUC] [AstroLib] software for historical planet/star positions?

[Erdmann, Christopher]

Samantha,

We've used World Wide Telescope in the past but you may also be able to do
this with Stellarium. The example that comes to mind is Alyssa Goodman's
Galileo's New Order in WWT
https://wwtambassadors.org/wwt/tours/galileos-new-order.

-Chris

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Samantha Teplitzky <
steplitz en library.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A graduate student is looking for software that he can use to search for
> the historical location of planets/stars and occurrence of eclipses, etc.
>  His research is in East Asian studies and he is looking into various old
> texts, stories and charts that reference astronomical events, roughly
> around 100 BC.  He would like to match them with actual occurrences.
>
> Does anyone know if such historical data has been digitized, or if there
> is software that can generate past positions of planets and stars?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Best,
> Sam
>
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> Samantha Teplitzky
> Earth and Physical Sciences Librarian
> University of California, Berkeley
> 510.664.7158
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