WorldWideTelescope
TFP (last post) is already introducing me to new things…
I came across Microsoft’s WorldWideTelescope project in the book, and decided to check it out.
It runs painfully slowly (even on my 2.93GHz C2D MBP), but I can still use it, and determined that it’s extremely cool. That said, I should point out that being a Mac user limits me to the Silverlight based web client. Perhaps the Windows stand alone client is more responsive, but I can’t justify rebooting the Mac into Windows just to run WWT.
For viewing constellations and as a show+tell aide, I still prefer Stellarium for the data it supports, but will be using WWT more as time goes on.