A key step, I think, with the loaner laptop, was to tell the landscape selection to not set the location settings. I did that by hand. Weird.
In turn, I was able to tell them where to look for Saturn, Mars, and Regulus, in relation to the Moon. And I was able to predict that Jupiter would be visible soon. And where to spot Spica, Altair, Vega, and Deneb.
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To that end, I include this image...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-eDty8qrjv09CISXlb33vrm5L5xd81X-SOmUDq2gMh9SHBC08T2F4dgLhrYdH3t_PT451ioN49GXhx0nOT6THUae1PT__UvRyLTlAW8QdbpI7jau6PPYA3pmOPST7-izT6ZEmnQ/s400/stellarium-CAO-alignment.jpg)
Our wonderful, 2001: A Space Odyssey-like conjunction, is provided by—no, not a hippy dippy digital camera (and there were lots around) but—put your hands together for—Stellarium!
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