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Title: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: unl0cker on February 26, 2013, 11:28:33 PM

http://sky-map.org/ (http://sky-map.org/)

This one is also cool:

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

But you'll need Chrome.

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: blotz on February 27, 2013, 06:03:41 AM

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

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: unl0cker on February 27, 2013, 03:00:31 PM

Ok.

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

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

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: atomic7732 on February 27, 2013, 03:11:44 PM

http://heavens-above.com/ (http://heavens-above.com/)

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

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: tuto99 on February 27, 2013, 03:24:26 PM

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

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: blotz on February 27, 2013, 07:26:45 PM

This  (http://universesandbox.com)one is the BEST.

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: Darvince on February 27, 2013, 08:46:26 PM

I was waiting for that, and I got it.

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: smjjames on February 27, 2013, 09:16:17 PM

Quote from: unl0cker on February 27, 2013, 03:00:31 PM

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

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

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: unl0cker on February 28, 2013, 01:17:43 PM

Quote from: smjjames on February 27, 2013, 09:16:17 PM

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

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: unl0cker on February 28, 2013, 01:36:06 PM

Another one for raw data:

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

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: tuto99 on February 28, 2013, 01:36:57 PM

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

Title: Re: Some Astronomy Sites
Post by: blotz on February 28, 2013, 02:34:14 PM

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