This web site has lists of things going on in our skies for thousands of years in the past and into the future. Now, I'm not complaining, but, who but alternate historians and SF writers is ever going to use this? Okay, some archaologists sometimes use some of this.
But some of it's amazing.
Solar eclipses during transits
One hundred millennium catalog
50 000 BC - 50 000 AD
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/sedt.html
Transits of Venus
Fifteen millennium catalog
5 000 BC - 10 000 AD
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/VenusCatalog.html
Sometimes one planet crosses in front of another:
Mutual Planetary Transits
Fifteen millennium catalog
5 000 BC - 10 000 AD
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/mutual.html
It also has pages for particular events, such as a transit of Venus in 2012, and what a person at any given latitude and longitude will see in the local sky on that date.
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/tmv.html
The site has pages for lunar and solar eclipses, transits of planets during eclipses, transits of planets as seen from other planets...but only for this solar system, and there isn't anything about Pluto--apparently Pluto's orbit isn't well enough known.
There's a page where he tells you when we would see transits of Venus and Mercury at the same time. Those are very rare.
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/sspt/ssspt-III.pdf
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/sspt/ssspt-II.pdf
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/sspt/ssspt-I.pdf
There's other neat stuff there, too. But I've only gotten one story idea from it--so far. Will anybody else get any ideas from that site?
But some of it's amazing.
Solar eclipses during transits
One hundred millennium catalog
50 000 BC - 50 000 AD
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/sedt.html
Transits of Venus
Fifteen millennium catalog
5 000 BC - 10 000 AD
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/VenusCatalog.html
Sometimes one planet crosses in front of another:
Mutual Planetary Transits
Fifteen millennium catalog
5 000 BC - 10 000 AD
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/mutual.html
It also has pages for particular events, such as a transit of Venus in 2012, and what a person at any given latitude and longitude will see in the local sky on that date.
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/tmv.html
The site has pages for lunar and solar eclipses, transits of planets during eclipses, transits of planets as seen from other planets...but only for this solar system, and there isn't anything about Pluto--apparently Pluto's orbit isn't well enough known.
There's a page where he tells you when we would see transits of Venus and Mercury at the same time. Those are very rare.
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/sspt/ssspt-III.pdf
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/sspt/ssspt-II.pdf
http://transit.savage-garden.org/en/sspt/ssspt-I.pdf
There's other neat stuff there, too. But I've only gotten one story idea from it--so far. Will anybody else get any ideas from that site?