1. Uri Robinson CSC 495 October 12 th, 2007

2. Presentation Order What Is Google Sky? Who Uses It? How Does It Work? Why Use Google Sky? Not The First Time Competitors? Recap

3. What Is Google Sky? A sky tool in Google Earth for viewing stars and astronomical images Released August 27 th, 2007 Produced by Google through a partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute An application for computer users to look at the universe with the click of a mouse YouTube Video On Google Sky

4. Who Uses It? Educational Personal Universities Government Teachers Students Children Parents Astronomy Enthusiasts

5. How Does It Work? Google Sky is made up of stitched photographs of the heavens pieced together to make one giant navigation able database of the universe. Basically, pictures are taken from a high-powered telescope and placed in a database which are then uploaded when using Google Earth in Sky mode

6. Why Use Google Sky? An awe-inspiring look of the universe One of the unique features of Google Sky is that you can plug in your address and the program shows you what the sky above your home looks like You can bookmark constellations, rotate the whole sky and zoom in to see details of black holes and stars

7. Not The First Time Google Sky isn’t the first time Google has ventured into space Google Mars – www.google.com/mars/ (March 06)www.google.com/mars/ Google Moon – www.google.com/moon/ (August 06)www.google.com/moon/ Both services use data from the US Space Agency NASA (signed agreement in December 06)

8. Competitors Stellarium Free open source tool that gives people a chance to access more than a million stars, in addition to planets and moons Created by Fabien Chereau Starry Night A widget for Apple Mac users that allows them to see the night sky from and location on Earth Created by Imaginova

9. Competitors – Part 2 The Sky (Software Bisque) Celestia (Open Source) Celestia SkyTools (SkyHound Software) VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY (The Deadly Microsoft) “Expected to be very similar to Google Sky”

10. Recap A sky tool in Google Earth for viewing stars and astronomical images Used by universities, government, children, parents Google Sky is made up of stitched photographs of the heavens pieced together to make one giant navigation able database of the universe. An awe-inspiring look of the universe (w/ Google) Google Moon and Google Mars Eventual competitor will be MicrosoftENDEND

11. Ayase, Japan Stellarium

12. Location of Planets Stellarium

13. Atacama Desert, Chile Stellarium

14. Earth Celestia

15. The 1989 flyby of Neptune by Voyager 2 Last stop before leaving the solar system. Celestia

16. Orbits of a number of main belt asteroids (Brown) Major Planet Orbits (Blue). Celestia