Sky View Café is a Java applet that lets you use your web browser to see many types of astronomical information, in both graphical and numerical form. You can see which stars and planets will be out tonight in the sky above your home town, see how the next solar or lunar eclipse will look from Los Angeles, or find out when the Moon rose over Sydney on your birthday ten years ago. Sky View Café includes star charts, a 3-D orrery, displays of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, an astronomical event calendar, an ephemeris generator, and many other features.

Best of all, Sky View Café is free, and there's nothing you have to install to use the on-line web version. All you need is a compatible Java-enabled web browser, and you're ready to go.

If you're still stuck with dial-up internet service, you'll need to be patient — the applet might take a minute or two to load. Future visits will typically be much faster if your web browser has kept the applet cached.

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Find out how to add a customized version of Sky View Café to your own web site.

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