Re: online orrery or equivalent

In uk.sci.astronomy message <g2pgv2drkulm573dm9qm7ng956fg25e5nk@xxxxxxx>
, Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:09:35, Maurice W <m@xxxxx> posted:

I'm after a website which gives realtime or daily 3D or equivalent
representations of the sun and where the planets are.

ie I know that Saturn and Venus were visible this evening, but would
like to get my head around exactly where they, and the Earth, were in
relation to each other

<http://www.heavens-above.com/planets.asp>.

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