OT: Digital Atlas of the Universe (Hayden)

[Edi]

Fyron said:
Better or worse than Google Sky?

Eh, what? I just looked at that Google excuse for a service and it's not comparable. The Hayden Atlas is not a web service. You download it and then use it. It's in real 3D and you can move around it as much as you wish and use various views which will tell you all sorts of interesting things and you can move out from the Sun and so forth. If you actually have a decent astronomy textbook, you could get even more out of it.

The Google Sky thing is.... *shudder*

[Q]

You might be interested in this too:

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

[Fyron]

You can also get Google Sky as an addon to Google Earth, which is where it started before getting a browser version.

[Edi]

I've got Celestia, but thanks for the link anyway. Lot harder to get things visible in it even if it's more nicefied than the Hayden Atlas. Have to take a better look at that one too.