VOEvents in Google Sky

Alasdair Allan aa at astro.ex.ac.uk
Wed Aug 22 11:34:02 PDT 2007


Roy Williams wrote:
> Today Google has released a new Sky layer for Google Earth [1]. In  
> conjunction, the VOEventNet project [2] is pleased to announce a  
> set of mashups showing recent astronomical transients, updated  
> every 15 minutes. The mashups show GCN feeds (SWIFT, Milagro,  
> Integral), the GRBlog (contains sky-located GCN circulars), as well  
> as OGLE microlensing events. The event feeds contain VOEvents, and  
> drilldown is available to finding charts, light curves, and  
> original VOEvents. Once the new Google Earth is installed, click on  
> the mashup links [3], [4], [5] to automatically show the content.

Cool. I was talking to Andrew today and he said he'd been talking to  
you guys. Nice work. How long did it take to put together?

Al.



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