Introducing Google Sky

The Avon Lady · 08-23-07, 11:44 AM

Is nothing outside of their grasp anymore?!

AVGWarhawk · 08-23-07, 12:47 PM

Cool. If we were to have the coordinates of a ICBM trajectory could we watch it on this?

STEED · 08-23-07, 03:34 PM

Time to Lead line the bathroom. :hmm:

Skybird · 08-23-07, 04:20 PM

Installed it yesterday. Fascinating.

Camaero · 08-24-07, 02:05 AM

I do love space!

TteFAboB · 08-24-07, 02:33 AM

There was a freeware proggie for this, it's called either Stellarium or Cellestia, I'm not sure.

Skybird · 08-24-07, 04:48 AM

Sky (the software, not me

) offers plenty of real photos, whereas Cellestial is very much in depth, but gives sometimes more, sometimes less sophisticated computer graphics only, but you can actually move through the galaxy, in 3D. Stellarium is a planetarium software that actually can be used to control real planetariums. It is quite charming (I have it installed), helps oyu to get a quick overview on what the sky is looking like tonight, and does not more and not less than what you expect to see when taking that 1 hour planetarium lecture for the public. Actual version is 0.9 (stable, never had a problem with it).

I find Sky very fascinating.

The Avon Lady · 08-24-07, 05:09 AM

Skybird, you naughty, naughty boy!

Skybird · 08-24-07, 05:16 AM

Next time I write it across the night's stellar sky!

There is an old joke here in Germany, cold-war-era, and probably every German knows it: the US president gets a call at night, telling him "Mr. President, the Russians have landed on the moon and painted it in red all over!" The man thinks a moment, then says:" Give NASA some cans of white paint and tell them to write Coca-Cola on it!"

08-23-07, 11:44 AM	#1
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Introducing Google Sky Is nothing outside of their grasp anymore?! __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

08-23-07, 12:47 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Cool. If we were to have the coordinates of a ICBM trajectory could we watch it on this? __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

08-23-07, 03:34 PM	#3
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Time to Lead line the bathroom. :hmm: __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

08-23-07, 04:20 PM	#4
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,609 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Installed it yesterday. Fascinating. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

08-24-07, 02:05 AM	#5
Camaero The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA, Massachusetts Posts: 1,477 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	I do love space! __________________

08-24-07, 02:33 AM	#6
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	There was a freeware proggie for this, it's called either Stellarium or Cellestia, I'm not sure. __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand

08-24-07, 04:48 AM	#7
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,609 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Sky (the software, not me ) offers plenty of real photos, whereas Cellestial is very much in depth, but gives sometimes more, sometimes less sophisticated computer graphics only, but you can actually move through the galaxy, in 3D. Stellarium is a planetarium software that actually can be used to control real planetariums. It is quite charming (I have it installed), helps oyu to get a quick overview on what the sky is looking like tonight, and does not more and not less than what you expect to see when taking that 1 hour planetarium lecture for the public. Actual version is 0.9 (stable, never had a problem with it). I find Sky very fascinating. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

08-24-07, 05:09 AM	#8
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Skybird, you naughty, naughty boy! __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

08-24-07, 05:16 AM	#9
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,609 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Next time I write it across the night's stellar sky! There is an old joke here in Germany, cold-war-era, and probably every German knows it: the US president gets a call at night, telling him "Mr. President, the Russians have landed on the moon and painted it in red all over!" The man thinks a moment, then says:" Give NASA some cans of white paint and tell them to write Coca-Cola on it!" __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.