Google Sky Uri Robinson CSC 495 October 12th, 2007 Presentation Order What Is Google Sky? Who Uses It? How Does It Work? Why Use Google Sky? Not The First Time Competitors? Recap What Is Google Sky? A sky tool in Google Earth for viewing
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Google Sky Uri Robinson
CSC 495
October 12th, 2007<br>
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Presentation Order What Is Google Sky?
Who Uses It?
How Does It Work?
Why Use Google Sky?
Not The First Time
Competitors?
Recap<br>
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What Is Google Sky? A sky tool in Google Earth for viewing stars and astronomical images
Released August 27th, 2007
Produced by Google through a partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute
An application for computer users to look at the universe with the click of a mouse
YouTube Video On Google Sky<br>
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Who Uses It? Educational Personal Universities
Government
Teachers
Students Children
Parents
Astronomy Enthusiasts<br>
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How Does It Work? Google Sky is made up of stitched photographs of the heavens pieced together to make one giant navigation able database of the universe.
Basically, pictures are taken from a high-powered telescope and placed in a database which are then uploaded when using Google Earth in Sky mode<br>
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Why Use Google Sky? An awe-inspiring look of the universe
One of the unique features of Google Sky is that you can plug in your address and the program shows you what the sky above your home looks like
You can bookmark constellations, rotate the whole sky and zoom in to see details of black holes and stars<br>
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Not The First Time Google Sky isn’t the first time Google has ventured into space
Google Mars – www.google.com/mars/ (March 06)
Google Moon – www.google.com/moon/ (August 06)
Both services use data from the US Space Agency NASA (signed agreement in December 06)<br>
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Competitors Stellarium
Free open source tool that gives people a chance to access more than a million stars, in addition to planets and moons
Created by Fabien Chereau
Starry Night
A widget for Apple Mac users that allows them to see the night sky from and location on Earth
Created by Imaginova<br>
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Competitors – Part 2 The Sky (Software Bisque)
Celestia (Open Source)
SkyTools (SkyHound Software)
VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY (The Deadly Microsoft)
“Expected to be very similar to Google Sky”<br>
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Recap A sky tool in Google Earth for viewing stars and astronomical images
Used by universities, government, children, parents
Google Sky is made up of stitched photographs of the heavens pieced together to make one giant navigation able database of the universe.
An awe-inspiring look of the universe (w/ Google)
Google Moon and Google Mars
Eventual competitor will be Microsoft END<br>
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Ayase, Japan Stellarium<br>
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Location of Planets Stellarium<br>
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Atacama Desert, Chile Stellarium<br>
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Earth Celestia<br>
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The 1989 flyby of Neptune by Voyager 2 Last stop before leaving the solar system. Celestia<br>
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Orbits of a number of main belt asteroids (Brown) Major Planet Orbits (Blue). Celestia<br>
