ICT Guy

Some of you may be aware that you can use Google Earth to view the sky. Well now you don’t even need the standalone application – you can do it directly from your web browser just like using Google maps! This is good news for teachers in schools that don’t allow the use of the Google Earth.

The images seen in Google Sky are identical to those found in Sky in Google Earth. We have changed the projection to display these images within Google Maps (the Mercator projection). As with Google Maps this means that we cannot view the northern and southern celestial poles.