
Now, the good old folks at Google have come up with a lovely "Backyard Astronomer's Add-on" for their popular Google Earth application. "Google Sky" gives you a photo-real view of the heavens, with quite good detail surrounding star clusters, galaxies, constellations etc. It also provides real planetary and moon motion, and a tour of the universe using 1Hubble's photos. You start of with a "human eye" view and then can zoom into a detail, photo-realistic view as you please (see the detailed photo of the Double Cluster below for a nice example).

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Google Earth with Sky feature
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Thanks, Navid!
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