Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Fwd: Google Earth, Stellarium

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On 8/23/07, Matthew Gates <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Congratulations to the Google development team - it must have been a lot
> of
> work to get the image sets together, and a nice challenge to work them
> into
> Google Earth.


Yeah they did a good job, as usual though :)

I was pleased to see several comments on the Lifehacker post about it
> mentioning Stellarium, and all of them seeming to say Stellarium is bette=
r
> than Google Earth/Sky.  ;-)
>
> Fortunately for Stellarium, Google's implementation is quite ugly at this
> early stage.  Lots of our features are absent which I can't see them
> fitting into Google Earth, e.g. landscapes, atmospheric effects,
> scripting,
> different projection modes, and importantly time shifting.


I agree, and in the contrary I see easily google sky features integrated
into Stellarium. I am actually working on it.

Their image data set is enviable though...  I wonder if there is an open AP=
I
> for accessing it?  I couldn't see anything obvious on the google API list=
.
> It would be good to keep an eye out for any announcements...


I am currently discussing with the people who produce the DSS images, and I
am quite confident we can use them in a medium term.
First I will integrate them in VirGO, and once the whole stuff is scalable
(I am very concerned with the server load of this kind of service) it will
move into the standard version of stellarium. Having access to google data
would be even better though since it fixes the problem of distributing the
images.

They are many features which are or will be working soon in VirGO and which
hopefully will be moved or packaged with the standard version of stellarium
are:
  1- Loading real astro images footprints and previews (using VO standards)=
.
The Public Affair Department of the HST are willing to provide a server wit=
h
nice images from hubble and ESO press release for display in stellarium (we
use that in VirGO for displaying raw professional images but this makes no
sense for normal stellarium users).
  2- DSS view as in google sky, but not as good in a first step though.
  3- Simbad name look-up. This is already working, just need the Qt
interface in stellarium to move that in it.
  4- In a later stage, inverted color mode.

The most critical point to reach this steps is from ESO side to improve
server load, and from stellarium's team side to move to the new Qt GUI and
improve the plug-in infrastructure.

Cheers,
Fabien

On Thursday 23 August 2007, Fabien Ch=E9reau wrote:
> > Wow :)
> > Google vs Microsoft vs Stellarium haha :)
> > Fabien
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Neale Monks <nm...@ma...>
> > Date: Aug 22, 2007 7:06 PM
> > Subject: Google Earth, Stellarium
> > To: Astro Mac <hub...@to...>
> > Cc: Fabien Ch=E9reau <ste...@fr...>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > There's a nice piece on the BBC web site today about 'Google Earth'
> > and its new planetarium mode. One nice aspect of the article is it
> > mentions the other apps in the field, including a photo of
> > 'Stellarium' and a brief mention of this app and its creator, Fabien
> > Chereau. Mac users also get singled out thanks to the Starry Night
> > widget.
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6955787.stm
> >
> > Cheers, Neale
>
>
>
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