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3 Responses to “Planetary Playthingie: AstroTour”

1. quiddity Says:
   February 1st, 2010 at 5:57 pm

   Nice, but why are the planets moving clockwise? Is it because the app is from “down under” ?

2. wunsacon Says:
   February 1st, 2010 at 9:48 pm

   Barry, also check out:
   http://www.shatters.net/celestia/gallery.html
   http://www.stellarium.org/

   Projecting these up on a wall can make for some nice, animated wall art.

3. IdahoSpud Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 2:22 am

   I’ll see your cool space app and raise you one:

   http://science.nasa.gov/Realtime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html

   You can watch satellites move in real time, view their orbit, and get data on each one that you target.