[Chaos-l] Accuweather website astronomy information

Robert Nielsen robertnielsen at nc.rr.com
Sat May 24 10:03:36 EDT 2008


Not too shabby ... there isn't a lot of *really* useful information 
(like the Clear Sky Clock), but it's not bad ...

Robert

D Gary Grady wrote:
> I'm very possibly the last person on the planet to learn this, but in 
> case there's someone else for whom this is news, Accuweather has added a 
> local astronomy forecast to its website. To see it go to
>
> http://www.accuweather.com
>
> and type in the appropriate zip code, then in the dropdown box above and 
> to the right of the forecast, change from "Lifestyle weather" to 
> "Astronomy."
>
> This will take you to a forecast labeled "Tonight's Viewing Conditions" 
> with the 10 pm forecast for temperature, wind, dew point, and 
> visibility, plus the rising and setting times for the sun and moon and 
> the phase of the moon. There's also an astronomy photo of the day (not 
> the same as NASA's) and some other stuff.
>
> Clicking on the "More Details" link takes you to forecasts for the next 
> several days, but scroll down and you'll see tonight's hour-by-hour 
> forecast followed by rising and setting times of eight planets (or seven 
> planets and Pluto if you're a dang radical).
>
>
>   




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