Microsoft worldwide telescope

I'm an amateur astronomer and this is beautiful and all from the screen on your computer. Choose from different space based telescopes or microwave earth based telescopes.
The executable file is 20mb and can be found here:

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/experienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?exp=true


Ever seen the dark side of the moon?

usakicksass said:

Ever seen the dark side of the moon?

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Lemme guess, it's dark? Sweet telescope thingy but who cares about the dark side of the moon? It's just the moon except you can't see shit. ;D

VillageIdiot said:

[quote author=usakicksass link=1211035372/0#0 date=1211035372]...who cares about the dark side of the moon?

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Pink Floyd & Pink Floyd fans.

usakicksass said:

I'm an amateur astronomer and this is beautiful and all from the screen on your computer. Choose from different space based telescopes or microwave earth based telescopes.
The executable file is 20mb and can be found here:

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/experienceIt/ExperienceIt.aspx?exp=true


Ever seen the dark side of the moon?

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ive wanted to see the dark side of the mono, there are barely any pictures. and its so hard to search when everything is pink floyd.

LoL.My PC doesn't meet the requirements

mikeeey said:

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ive wanted to see the dark side of the mono, there are barely any pictures. and its so hard to search when everything is pink floyd.

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lrn2google. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=space+photos+"dark+side+of+the+moon"+-"pink+floyd"+-lyrics
you can put minus signs in front of words you don't want to search for.

VillageIdiot said:

Lemme guess, it's dark? Sweet telescope thingy but who cares about the dark side of the moon? It's just the moon except you can't see shit.

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Well, it's not really that it's dark, it's just we never see it... it's always pointing away from earth. During the "No moon" phase every month, what we see is all black, yet that's not the dark side of the moon... the dark side is happily being lit, we just can't see it.

actually the dark side of the moon is a lot more interesting than the side we see, it has a lot more craters since it's always being hit by asteroids etc.

Yeah, the dark side is not really the side with no light, it's the side that we never see.Should really be called the unseen side, after all it probably gets as much light as the other side.