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Charting the northern sky
from North Africa

I downloaded HNSky awhile back. I was just using it a few minutes ago in order to track Mars and the Moon in Cairo's clear sky, while children play in the street and their parents watch the Ramadan soap operas or what seems to be an intense football match.

"'Hallo northern sky' or HNSKY is a planetarium program for Windows. Have a try. It is free with 26,000 deep-sky objects and all stars to magnitude 12... It displays all planets, the Moon, Sun, moons of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Neptune and a few hundred asteroids and comets... It will run under Windows 95 or later. An older version 1.62 will run under Windows 3.1."