Comments on: Sky map! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:13:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Jorg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33526 Jorg Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:41:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33526 Well, it's kind of cute, but I am a big fan of XEphem: and travelling isn't a problem, since I run it on all my machines, including my laptop and I can get datasets from miscellaneous catalogues and surveys and pipe them into my fv or ds9, so all is good...;) Of course one needs Linux for that. And, sky-map couldn't find NGC869 for me; oh well... Well, it’s kind of cute, but I am a big fan of XEphem: and travelling isn’t a problem, since I run it on all my machines, including my laptop and I can get datasets from miscellaneous catalogues and surveys and pipe them into my fv or ds9, so all is good…;)

Of course one needs Linux for that.

And, sky-map couldn’t find NGC869 for me; oh well…

]]> By: Sky Map | LifeParticles http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33541 Sky Map | LifeParticles Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:06:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33541 [...] Map. Just what you’d think. [via] Powered by Gregarious [...] […] Map. Just what you’d think. [via] Powered by Gregarious […]

]]> By: Sky Map « Mr. .NET http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33540 Sky Map « Mr. .NET Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:41:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33540 [...] 29 03 2007 via the Bad Astronomer, Sky Map is like google maps but for the night [...] […] 29 03 2007 via the Bad Astronomer, Sky Map is like google maps but for the night […]

]]> By: Gilles http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33539 Gilles Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:39:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33539 Sky Map doesn't work on a Macintosh ; this software lacks Intelligent Design ! Sky Map doesn’t work on a Macintosh ; this software lacks Intelligent Design !

]]> By: John Armstrong http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33538 John Armstrong Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:16:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33538 James: actually, I'm not surprised at the hexagon, and I'm not sure why the astronomers in the article are either. There are a lot of metastable spherical harmonics with hexagonal symmetry, and some with rather low angular momentum numbers. For a convection pattern to arise and be reinforced by that sort of harmonic shouldn't be so surprising. Of course, spherical harmonics are all because of a Lie group, <a href="http://unapologetic.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/more-sketches-and-why-we-care/" rel="nofollow">back to this week's math news</a>. :D James: actually, I’m not surprised at the hexagon, and I’m not sure why the astronomers in the article are either. There are a lot of metastable spherical harmonics with hexagonal symmetry, and some with rather low angular momentum numbers. For a convection pattern to arise and be reinforced by that sort of harmonic shouldn’t be so surprising.

Of course, spherical harmonics are all because of a Lie group, back to this week’s math news. :D

]]> By: John Phillips http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33537 John Phillips Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:16:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33537 This is a cool site, nice one. Another free download worth a play is http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Even better, there is a version for Linux, Windows and Mac as well as source code as it is a OS/GNU project. It also has a neat add on donwload section as well as instructions for creating your own. This is a cool site, nice one. Another free download worth a play is http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Even better, there is a version for Linux, Windows and Mac as well as source code as it is a OS/GNU project. It also has a neat add on donwload section as well as instructions for creating your own.

]]> By: bswift http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33536 bswift Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:48:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/26/sky-map/#comment-33536 Google probably won't buy it. I'm sure they have something better in the works, as they've recently partnered with the LSST project. Google probably won’t buy it. I’m sure they have something better in the works, as they’ve recently partnered with the LSST project.

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