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posted by lxnyce on Friday March 14, @12:22AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the Not-first-department dept.
Google Space Exploration Web Mapping
The Ogle Earth blog has a detailed review of this new Google site. From their summary : "The web-browser version of Google Sky has gone live. It’s announced on the official Google Blog, where we learn that it is the the labor of love of Google’s Latin America Code Jam finalist and winter intern Diego Gavinowich, and on on Google Lat-Long Blog, where we find a run-down of the features."

For a detailed list of the features and critiques as well, please visit the Ogle Earth blog for more detail.

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Google Earth Blog has a full review of the new Google Sky features in GE 4.2. From the piece: "Many of us, who think Google Earth has been a wonderful tool for viewing the Earth, have asked Google to use the same tool and techniques to look at other planets and places of the universe. Sky is certainly a wonderful first step. It stays true to Google Earth's formula for success by providing high resolution imagery, intuitive and easy-to-use interface with the mouse, layers with more information, the same kind of tools for sharing and annotating places with others (placemarks, image overlays, network links, etc.), and most importantly it gives an exciting new look at places many people have never viewed with their own eyes. Just like GE opened our eyes and gave us exciting opportunities to explore our planet, this new release is already doing the same thing for the night sky."
Previous posts at GE blog link to stories of rumours of censorship with the discovery of a missing chunk of sky and the discovery of a spaceship.
Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope 3 comments [+]
Slashdot has all the information about this. This is most follow up to the Google Sky product MSFT was working on. There is a pretty good video demonstration, so please visit slashdot to get the link and discussion items.

Update : I just noticed Ogle Earth has a great review of the whole thing. Please visit their page for a highly detailed overview.
Update : The Google Earth Blog has also done an extensive review of this. Check out their page for more information.

Here is their summary : "Ted.com has a great sneak peek at Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope project. In this video, presented by Roy Gould and Curtis Wong, you are able to see a combined view of satellites and telescopes from all over the planet and nearby space. The compiled image is rendered using Microsoft's new high-performance "Visual Experience Engine" that allows users to pan and zoom across the night sky seamlessly."
Application Domains: Stellarium 0.10.0 Released [+]
With Google Sky and Microsoft WorldWide Telescope in the wild, let's not forget the excellent open source Stellarium which just released a significant update, here are the new features and their announcement: "As with the release of the previous version of Stellarium (0.9.1), version 0.10.0 brings a great many changes under the hood. Unlike the previous version, in this release the underlying changes are matched by a significant change to the user interface of the program. This article highlights some of the features which we believe make Stellarium 0.10.0 a ground-breaking release, and then goes on to discuss some directions which may be explored in future."
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