Hi all,

I'm still an amateur amateur at star-gazing, but I find it delightful fun (just saw a bunch of Messier objects at the local observatory the other night - how cool!). Anyway, since Mars is so close right now, I've taken a bit of interest in it.

I was curious if anyone knows of a site or a program (preferably free or cheap, and downloadable) which shows where Mars will be at any given time on any given night (like this month). What I mean is where in the constellations will one find it. I think it's going through Aquarius right now, toward Capricorn, but I sometimes still have trouble finding these constellations (bad seeing conditions + no money for a telescope yet), so I'm hoping to find a program that'll plot it's daily position (say at 11:00pm) over time so I can watch how it moves through the constellations and get a better understanding of this stuff. When I go out to look up at the sky, it's hard to keep things straight (guess it just takes time to get familiar with the sky), so a program or site as described would be of incalculable help to someone like me.

Thanks!


[Edited to correct atrocious typo]