Apr 8th, 2008| 04:32 pm | Posted by vlk
For people in the Boston area, a cornucopia of talks on Google Sky in the near future.
- Hunting for Needles in Massive Astronomical Data Streams
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 4pm
Room 330, 60 Oxford St.
Ryan Scranton, Google Sky Team
- Inside Google Sky
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 8pm
Room 105, Emerson Hall
Andrew Connolly, Google Sky Team
- Sky in Google Earth
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 1pm
Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden
Alberto Conti & Carol Christian, STScI
Sep 8th, 2007| 02:31 pm | Posted by vlk
Google Sky is good for a quick look “what’s that you just saw over there?”, but not for anything more than that. Not yet anyway. Mind you, I think it is a good thing. It is easy to use, and definitely worth a look as an astronomy popularization tool. But there are a number of astro visualization programs that can (so to speak) beat the pants off Google Sky with one hand tied behind the back. Check these out (all open source): Continue reading ‘Beyond Google Sky’ »
Sep 7th, 2007| 01:46 am | Posted by hlee
Ah..Sky in Google Earth made an arxiv appearance [arxiv/astro-ph:0709.0752], Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization by R. Scranton et al.