Elite / Frontier Space sim / emulation / astronomy

[OzFalcon]

Most of you would know of Celestia, Stellarium, Orbiter.

For those interested: Virtual Moon Atlas

 

[deej]

http://www.google.com/moon/

 

[Geraldine]

Here is a link to the browser based World Wide Telescope from Micro$oft, it's free

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/WhatIs/WhatisWWT.aspx

 

[Michael Brookes]

That's pretty cool.

Michael

 

[OzFalcon]

It's not free :-(

Here is a link to the browser based World Wide Telescope from Micro$oft, it's free

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/WhatIs/WhatisWWT.aspx

You must have "Silverlight 3" to view WWT.
To have Silverlight 3, You must have Windows.
To Have Windows you must pay $$$ for it.

It's not free.

 

[OzFalcon]

Moon landing Via Google Earth

You can also fire up Google Earth and select "View/Explore/Moon".

Once you have the moon up in Google Earth try the moon landing Guided Tour.
ie. Under "Layers" open "Moon Gallery/Guided Tours/Apollo 11: Buzz Aldrin"
Then Select Play this Tour.

Pretty Cool.

 

[Geraldine]

It's not free.

Well, it is Micro$oft after all, , "free" is a relative term when they are involved.

 

[Sci-Fi Gene]

http://www.google.com/moon/

Aww: they removed the maximum zoom feature...