In order to illustrate various events during the Skynotes of each month I have used a number of Astronomy Software programs, and would like to credit these, and thank the authors of them:
They are:
Planetarium Gold Software for the full sky charts
Stellarium Software for some illustrations and charts: Fabien Chereau
Starry Night Pro for some illustrations and charts
Coelix Summary of monthly events, Lunar Occultations, and planetary comparison: Jean Vallieres
Moon Maps iPad application Astrovisuals,
:Astroshed and David Malin
'Guide' Software (Project Pluto) the valuable positional charts: Bill Gray
Virtual Moon Atlas The moon phases: Christian Legrand & Patrick Chevalley
StarMap 3D+ iPad Application
LINOCCULT Software developed by Andrey Plekhanov
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
NASA
The Sun Today C. Alex Young Ph. D
LUNAR OCCULTATION WORKBENCH Dutch Occultation Association.
CELESTIA http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Programmers of all these amazing software programs, I thank you greatly.
If there are any omissions, please notify me.
Fabien and Jean my apologies for not being able to place the accents above the letter 'e'. Je suis desole mes amis Thanks again! ---Merci Bien!
John Harper.