06-12-2016, 07:19 AM
I'd like ask about a site I found several years ago, but it no longer exists. The main page was at savage-garden.org
The site had lists of astronomical events which happened thousands of years in the past and in the future.
Transits of Mercury and Venus, occultations of one planet with another, occultations of one planet as seen from another planet, the moon occulting one or more planets, solar eclipses during transits, for 50 000 BC - 50 000 AD.
Now I don't remember which program he was using--Stellarium, maybe. I hadn't had Stellarium downloaded at the time. But I checked a few of his entries Stellarium doesn't agree with his entries at all!
(Not to criticize at all, but I wonder, who but alternate historians and SF writers would ever use any of this? Archaologists too, sometimes, yes.)
I wonder if any of you had ever seen this site, and know anything about it or who was behind it. Did you verify any of his entries with Stellarium?
The site had lists of astronomical events which happened thousands of years in the past and in the future.
Transits of Mercury and Venus, occultations of one planet with another, occultations of one planet as seen from another planet, the moon occulting one or more planets, solar eclipses during transits, for 50 000 BC - 50 000 AD.
Now I don't remember which program he was using--Stellarium, maybe. I hadn't had Stellarium downloaded at the time. But I checked a few of his entries Stellarium doesn't agree with his entries at all!
(Not to criticize at all, but I wonder, who but alternate historians and SF writers would ever use any of this? Archaologists too, sometimes, yes.)
I wonder if any of you had ever seen this site, and know anything about it or who was behind it. Did you verify any of his entries with Stellarium?