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Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope is out... I'm going to install it soon and compare it to Google's "Sky" and Starry Night -- if you've already done so, post up in the comments!

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Posted by: RocketGuy on May 14, 2008 at 12:45 PM

Windows only?

Looks like it's not Mac Friendly, unsurprisingly.

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Posted by: C.L. Woodard on May 14, 2008 at 1:31 PM

What about Celestia?

Have you thought about comparing it to the open source project Celestia? It's a VERY nice app for exploring our universe.

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Posted by: Peter on May 14, 2008 at 5:43 PM

Alright...

I just downloaded it, and while I'm not impressed with the sky view (it appears to be a slightly glorified Google Sky), the Community feature is nice (allows you to join astronomical societies/magazines and share photos), and it connects to and control telescopes using a project called ASCOM. Unfortunately the huge leap in bandwidth requirements after the release of WWT forced them to disable downloads. Anyway, it's pretty sweet.

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