Google Sky

Wow, at last, constellation sized adertising banners! Watch those marketing dudes melt in ecstasy.

No, I can see great fascination in the result.

I downloaded the latest Google Earth update earlier this week and it now has the option of Sky View. So, it's already out there.

I only had a short play with it so I can't review it in any detail, but it certainly has great potential.

I haven't had time to check it out yet,(Google that is.) but I know Stellarium has been out for quite a while know. I found it entertaining.

http://www.stellarium.org/

I downloaded it.

I really like that you can get the distances in light years of the stars and their magnitudes. I wasn't blown away by their zoom feature, I hope google sky does a better job with that part of it. Still, not bad. I thought the whole "see it from another planets perspective was cool, but they blew it cause they made the sun the same size in the sky on every planet, which is way off. I know I'm being overly critical of the software, but its only because I have been waiting for someone to get one of these programs right for a while now. Hopefully google. Thanks for the heads up.