1. Amateur Astronomer Widget Project 2 Aimee Rydarowski Murray, LCC 6313

2. Amateur Astronomer Widget

3. For the inexperienced hobbyist Basic objectives: –The brightest satellites –Constellations –Planets Viewing conditions: –Moon phase (for brightness) –Temperature –Sky conditions

4. Amateur Astronomer Widget Data Sources Satellite and sky charts www.heavens-above.com HTML Moon phases and weather www.almanac.com RSS and HTML http://www.heavens- above.com

5. Amateur Astronomer Widget Existing Applications Representing Both Spectrums www.heavens-above.com Visitors can create an account and specify location which is stored in a database for later retrieval. Very comprehensive. http://astronomy.physics.tamu. edu/Widget/SunlitMoon.inde x.html Texas A&M widget that displays the true phases of the moon.

6. Amateur Astronomer Widget questions for the class… Overlay VS separate selection? Other useful data? Other suggestions for info-vis strategy? *I want to implement location selection by major US city if possible, or by zip, but this project will default to ATL.