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The World Wide Telescope and IYA 2009.
2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. In continuing what I presented at our amazing “What Inspires You” event, I have more to share on what I ran across on the web. Last year, I wrote on our forums that I was jealous of PC users because Microsoft released a free online telescope application that combined many techniques including optical, microwave, and radio. Now it is offered online using a simple web browser and even the mac people can participate!
Be sure to check out the guided tours (presentations) of our beautiful universe.
Click here for The World Wide Telescope. (Your web browser needs to support Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in. Most do). Bookmark the page.
I wanted to give everyone links to Google Earth 5 (which includes sky, mars, and earth- and even animal migrations). This is what I was browsing live during the presentation. I highly recommend you listen for 10 minutes a day from The 365 Days of Astronomy podcast.
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Thanks for the links. That site is a nice intro, though the interface is a little clunky (it doesn’t let you zoom out very far, for example, so that you could see everything from horizon to zenith at once. Its best feature seems to be the ability to layer backgrounds of various wavelengths, which is cool. Always nice to see a survey into all the other ways their are to perceive the world.
<Cavil>But no! We’re stuck with these ridiculous gelatinous orbs!</Cavil>
No prob. Thanks for checking it out.