Google Earth needs renaming…to Google Galaxy.. The latest version lets you view the sky above as well…
Search for constellations and stars, animate the orbit of the planets – or if you are feeling ambitious – perhaps simulate how early navigators used stars to cross the oceans!
For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere a visit ‘down under’ can be surprising – I remember my first night camping at Mount Cook on the Southern Island of New Zealand – and waking up before dawn to an amazing starfield I simply had never seen before… It was like I had stepped onto an alien planet – no familar ‘plough’ pointing the way north!
Take it from me – you ain’t seen the milky way if you have not seen it from there!
Now I can relive the experience on my Activboard!
