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Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astro
Posted: September 08 2007
by David Larson
Google Sky looks like a good tool for (1) public outreach, (2) figuring out the larger context of an observation---where was a Hubble image taken, how near the galactic plane it was, etc---and (3) overlaying various observations at different wavelengths and looking for correlations.
Are there other scientific applications that I'm missing?
[0709.0752] Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astron
Posted: September 10 2007
by Savvas Nesseris
Another great application is
Celestia. It is a 3d space explorer that allows the user to roam the universe! It uses the Hipparchos star database, real photos for the mesh of the planets and
more!
Cheers,
Savas
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Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astr
Posted: September 10 2007
by David Larson
Are there other scientific applications that I'm missing?
Oops, I guess I meant to say "uses", instead of "applications", since I meant to ask for other applications of Google Sky for scientific use. But it's good to know what other software is out there, too.