Google Sky

[Superflyer]

This is awsome, Googles newest toy is here. http://www.google.com/sky
I have played with it for only about 10 minutes and it is pretty awsome so far. It is just like google earth for outer space.

[Delthefunky]

Thanks man!

[Superflyer]

And here are two more that are along the same lines
http://www.google.com/mars/
http://www.google.com/moon

[photon]

I'm looking forward to this too: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

EDIT: TED presentation: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224

[HotHotHeat]

No offense here, I do think astronomy is really cool...But how can anyone tell the difference between which star is which by looking at that map? I can hardly find the big dipper...

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

This is awsome, Googles newest toy is here. http://www.google.com/sky
I have played with it for only about 10 minutes and it is pretty awsome so far. It is just like google earth for outer space.

Not that new, although it is nice to see others appreciating it.

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...ghlight=Google

[Thor]

Thats some incredible stuff, I was a sky watching freak as a kid and had recently been thinking about getting back into the hobby.

Gotta love technology!

[Kidder]

Six hours nineteen minutes right ascension, fourteen degrees twenty-two minutes declination... no sighting.

Six hours nineteen minutes right ascension, fourteen degrees twenty-three minutes declination........ no sighting

[RougeUnderoos]

In vaguely related (read: not threadworthy on it's own)...

http://sev.prnewswire.com/aerospace-...4032008-1.html

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 19, to report on the first-ever detection of the organic molecule methane in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star.
Though the planet is too hot to support life as we know it, the finding demonstrates the ability to detect organic molecules spectroscopically around Earth-like planets in habitable zones around stars.