Redshift 7 is the latest incarnation but it cost a few dollars to purchase. Computers and the technology used to run them have moved on since then and now that we use a 10 inch netbook as our primary computer I can no longer run Redshift 4 on a small screen resolution. My copy of Redshift 4 was old, bought off Amazon second hand many years ago. In this brief post I look at a free astronomy app called Stellarium, which is ideal for anyone with just a small interest in the stars. Having this kind of information at one’s fingertips is a great way of understanding the constellations of the sky and a useful way of passing night watches. With our lon and lat programmed into the computer’s system and the laptop pointing towards the same aspect as the boat’s bow we were able to quickly learn the stars above. Liz and I would position the old Acer laptop upon the table and boot up Redshift, an astronomy package that allowed us to view the sky at night.
Many an evening would be spent sitting in the cockpit at night, enveloped by the surround sound of cicadas and gently lapping water. I have fond memories of our first summer at anchor in Turkey.
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