Google Earth given celestial view
Posted by Lt-DavidW on 22 August 2007 - 09:17 · 6 comments & 3711 views
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#1 Posted by PureLegend on 22 Aug 2007 - 10:39
- Nice :woot:
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#2 Posted by fir3x on 22 Aug 2007 - 11:00
- now that's an add-on, well done google.
hopefully the pictures will be updated regularly instead of waiting years for a new one -
#2.1 Posted by +Lt-DavidW on 22 Aug 2007 - 13:40
- You'll be disappointed then. The pictures of Andromeda alone are over 2,300,000 years old!
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#3 Posted by Technologist on 22 Aug 2007 - 12:38
- I saw this on the news this morning. It looks pretty sweet.
Astronomers of the world, unite!
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#4 Posted by 0x00000001 on 25 Aug 2007 - 21:08
- uhmm.. has anybody heard of Celestia ?! it had this way before google earth even existed. but yea, nice add-on though.
"The basic idea is to take Google Earth and turn it on its head," Ed Parsons, Geospatial technologist at Google told the BBC News website. "So rather than using it to view imagery of the Earth, use it to view imagery of space." Dr John Mason of the British Astronomical Association, Britain's largest body for amateur astronomers said: "Light pollution and air pollution is now so bad in many areas that all you can see when you look up is a few dozen stars. If this helps people to realise just what they are missing, it is a jolly good thing."