[Calvin Locke]

I got Starry Night 6.2, but that's a feature I forgot about, or didn't think to check.

Before Christmas, I got into a discussion about the Star of Bethlehem, and ...satellites were appearing in what the date was, 3BC?

Any way, I came across the menu option to make satellites "historical" as well, or I think that's what the option was for.

I would have thought that would be the default.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Yeah, I noticed satellites winking in and out over Babylon in 136 BC. Never let it bother me. Didn’t know about the “historical” options.

You can go to guides, az/el and click on grid, and presto, you get an az/el grid. Then go to guides, and one of them (Solar System, I think) and click on ecliptic and you get the ecliptic. Then zoom in on the location of the satellite, let time fly by in one minute chunks and sooner or later the sun should fly by. (The sun will never come any closer than the ecliptic does to your satellite.)

Not sure about solar/Jovian spectrum, as Casey Stengel used to say, you can look it up.