<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Samantha,<br><br></div>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 <a href="https://wwtambassadors.org/wwt/tours/galileos-new-order">https://wwtambassadors.org/wwt/tours/galileos-new-order</a>.<br><br></div>-Chris<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Samantha Teplitzky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steplitz@library.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">steplitz@library.berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,<br></div><div><br>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know if such historical data has
been digitized, or if there is software that can
generate past positions of planets and stars?<br><br></div><div>Thanks for your help!<br><br></div><div>Best,<br>Sam<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Samantha Teplitzky</div>Earth and Physical Sciences Librarian<div>University of California, Berkeley</div><div><a href="tel:510.664.7158" value="+15106647158" target="_blank">510.664.7158</a></div></div>
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