Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.7004c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #70.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.860
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Many astronomers and amateurs have noted that upon discovery of Google Earth, after its release in mid-2005, they thought it would be a great interface for astronomical data. We came to the Sky project along separate trajectories, but by January 2006 we had joined forces and engaged the GoogleEarth team in Mountain View, CA. After an initial high energy meeting with Google, in 2006, we began experiments using the GoogleEarth technology and protocols, specifically Keyhole Markup Language (KML), and designed a mechanism for placing HST press release images and ancillary information into the Google Earth interface.
We will briefly describe our primary role in providing HST Press Release images and supplementary information on the images for the Sky interface. We also have explored catalog services from custom analysis provided through the new Hubble Legacy Archive. We also will mention our plans for interaction with the Virtual Observatory.
We also have worked with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh, Washington, and the new Google Pittsburgh facility to bring Sky to fruition and specifically create the background basemap through a merge of Sloan Digital Sky Survey data and Digitized Sky Survey material.
Christian Carol A.
Conti Alberto
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