Comments on: Hacking the Sky

Hacking the Sky

Upton O'Good — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:46:44 -0800

Hacking the Sky: Robert Simpson writes astronomy tools for use with Google Earth, Google Sky, and Twitter.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:15:25 -0800

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.

By: niles

niles — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:19:40 -0800

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?

By: Uppity Pigeon #2

Uppity Pigeon #2 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:57:34 -0800

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???"

By: Phantomx

Phantomx — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:28:38 -0800

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.

By: DU

DU — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:06:45 -0800

Niiiiice