Some Astronomy Sites

[unl0cker]

http://sky-map.org/

This one is also cool:

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

But you'll need Chrome.

[blotz]

you should specify, as there are hundreds of thousands of them

[unl0cker]

Ok.

http://sky-map.org/ is Skymap

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/ is Google's 100.000 Stars Experiment.

[atomic7732]

http://heavens-above.com/

Good for finding bright asteroids, comets, and it specializes in satellite passes/locations.

[tuto99]

http://www.stellarium.org/ Awesome program.

[blotz]

This one is the BEST.

[Darvince]

I was waiting for that, and I got it.

[smjjames]

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/ is Google's 100.000 Stars Experiment.

Despite what you said about it needing Chrome, it works on FireFox.

[unl0cker]

Despite what you said about it needing Chrome, it works on FireFox.

Awesome! It's been ages since I last used ff.



Here is another one:

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/starmaps/  Very cool and full of data for those that want to build "realistic" sims.

[unl0cker]

Another one for raw data:

http://www.astronexus.com/node/34

[tuto99]

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/download Nice

[blotz]

http://www.heavens-above.com/ cool sky map