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Google Sky

Google Sky. Uri Robinson CSC 495 October 12 th , 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 stars and astronomical images

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Google Sky

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  1. Google Sky Uri Robinson CSC 495 October 12th, 2007

  2. Presentation Order • What Is Google Sky? • Who Uses It? • How Does It Work? • Why Use Google Sky? • Not The First Time • Competitors? • Recap

  3. 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

  4. Who Uses It? Educational Personal • Universities • Government • Teachers • Students • Children • Parents • Astronomy Enthusiasts

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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)

  8. 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

  9. 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”

  10. 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

  11. Ayase, Japan Stellarium

  12. Location of Planets Stellarium

  13. Atacama Desert, Chile Stellarium

  14. Earth Celestia

  15. The 1989 flyby of Neptune by Voyager 2Last stop before leaving the solar system. Celestia

  16. Orbits of a number of main belt asteroids (Brown) Major Planet Orbits (Blue). Celestia

  17. THE END

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