Comments on: Horizon Terrain Profiles In Google Sky

By: Michael Kosowsky

Michael Kosowsky — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:53:47 +0000

One addition: it’s showing you your horizon AT THAT MOMENT, because as the Earth turns your horizon will move across the sky. Just refresh the Network Link any time you need to update to the current time, or see http://www.heywhatsthat.com/techfaq.html#planisphere_api for how to request other instants.

In response to feedback there’s now a finer alt-az grid available, and we’ve thrown in the Sun and planets (and Pluto too).

By: coreburn

coreburn — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:19:50 +0000

A quote from Galaxy Zoo about the blue lines mentioned in the comment above.

http://www.galaxyzoo.org/Tutorial.aspx
“As satellites orbit Earth, sunlight reflects off their solar panels, making them look very bright from the ground. Because the satellite is moving as the telescope’s camera is taking an image, the satellite makes a trail – a streak across the image. The trail is coloured because the colour images for the site are made by combining three black-and-white images, and the satellite only appeared in one image.”

By: LJ

LJ — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:16:53 +0000

I recently downloaded the new google earth. It is a little overwhelming at first, but you get use to it. Well while looking at the millions of stars and galaxies, my friend and I found several weird lights in the sky. They are quite strange, and i urge you to check them out. http://bluebeamsingooglesky.blogspot.com/