What questions do you have about astronomy? What time, and where, will the next solar eclipse be? Where is the space shuttle as it orbits around the earth? And countless other answers await you at EZipSky's recently announced Interactive SkyEngine: http://ezipsky.com/. EZipSky gives the following instructions and example:



"Send your zip or postal code and the name of something in the sky. Try the Sun or Moon; naked-eye planets; constellations; bright stars, star clusters, galaxies, or nebulae; or bright satellites. Ex.: 11733 sun, 90210 venus, cb3 0ha big dipper, 20009 hst, sw16 5np iss pm.



The abbreviation "hst" stands for "Hubble Space Telescope", and "iss" stands for "International Space Station".


The big search engines certainly have the capability of giving you lots of relevant astronomical information, but EZipSky sends it right to your cell phone in text format, based on easy-to-enter abbreviations.


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