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Re: Learn the stars, by phone
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2009 May 30, 20:16 -0400
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2009 May 30, 20:16 -0400
Gosh, Frank, next thing we know it'll be able to show altitude, bearing and time. Which means on the average passage there will be between one and one-dozen electronic sextants aboard to back-up the GPS to backup the sextant. :-) -Hewitt On 5/30/09, frankreed@historicalatlas.comwrote: > > Here's the official google page describing this software as it exists at present: > http://www.google.com/sky/skymap.html > > There's a short video embedded on the page where you can see "Google Sky Map" running. There are no real surprises here, but it's interesting to see that this does actually exist right now and runs on a mobile phone. > > -FER > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---