Hacking the Sky

March 4, 2009 2:46 PM

Hacking the Sky: Robert Simpson writes astronomy tools for use with Google Earth, Google Sky, and Twitter.
posted by Upton O'Good (5 comments total)

I got totally fired up to completely dump on Twitter as an astronomy tool, but that's actually pretty cool. Possibly the most useful Twitter feed I've seen.
posted by GuyZero at 3:15 PM on March 4

Wow. I just spent a lot of time last week trying to figure out how to get satellites into Stellarium. This is basically the next best thing.
Did I saw wow yet?
posted by niles at 3:19 PM on March 4

I got totally fired up to completely dump on Twitter as an astronomy tool, but that's actually pretty cool.

Yeah, no kidding. Based solely on my personal and totally unfair prejudices against Twitter, I was expecting something much less informative.

"Stars are pretty neat, you can see them tonight if you want. If you're outside I mean."

"Jupiter's made out of gas? WTF??"

"Huh. Shooting stars aren't actually stars, apparently. Who's naming these things???"
posted by Uppity Pigeon #2 at 3:57 PM on March 4 [1 favorite]

Wow that twitter feed is great. I would look for that information alot but i'd always forget to check like every two weeks. There's even one for Indianapolis! Thanks for the links... will check the others out when I'm done playing video games.
posted by Phantomx at 4:28 PM on March 4

Niiiiice
posted by DU at 9:06 AM on March 5