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Posted by Presences (Member # 8492) on :

Check it out. It’s called Google Sky.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

[derail] 32 posts in two YEARS???? Is that, like, allowed? [Big Grin]

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Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :

celestia is also pheonominal, if those two got together think of the potential.

Posted by Presences (Member # 8492) on :

Goody Scrivener -

[Wreck] 0 posts about Google Sky. Sorry, but you lost....
Google sky is not to be confused with Google Earth....

Google Sky was just announced 08/22/07...

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Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :

I'm pretty sure she was refering to your post count total, not commenting on any discussion of Google Earth or Sky.

Posted by Presences (Member # 8492) on :

Calaban - thanks for setting me straight...

Goody Scrivener,
Goodness, my humble apologies O great 6742 post master…

And you think this is the only profile I use....

Posted by Presences (Member # 8492) on :

I meant dkw, not calaban.

In any case, thanks for info calaban about celestia. I'll take a look.

Happy sky gazing and posting.

Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :

Google Sky is unbelievable.

Go back 20 years and show this to the president, and he'd have you hauled away for being an alien invader. And they would probably zap you with electricity.

But anyways...I am a member of my school's astronomy club, and GoogleSky is going to become an integral part of any discussions or presentations from here on out.

I especially like zooming in really close to pretty things (M101, M51, for example) and then slowly zooming out. It's exhilarating.

Posted by theamazeeaz (Member # 6970) on :

Yawn.

You people could buy this software for years.

It's called "Starry night".
It's been on the market for years. It came free with my Astronomy textbook Sheesh.

Heck, they even made a free widget for Macs.

Universities with Astronomy Depts usually have this program installed and you can do everything I saw in that ad with it.

Not to promote any one particular product, here's another company's product.

The more you pay, the more you can do (like operate a research telescope), but if you really need to know where something moving is in the sky, you go here.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I don't know if it works this way, but I imagine Google Sky should have the ability to be continuously updated with new images.

I mean, I've never really been into Google Earth or Google Sky, but isn't that what they do? Like, I can I go and see last night's eclipse?

Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :

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Yawn.

You people could buy this software for years.

yeah, but we poverty-stricken are pretty excited.

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

pooka: no, they do not do that, and there would be no way not costing quite a lot of money (probably a couple orders of magnitude more than they spend on the projects now, maybe even more) to do so.