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Google Sky

Discover the potential of the Google Earth sky application and its weaknesses in interactivity and features. Improvements are needed!

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When Google Earth came out, one of my first thoughts was how cool it would be to have an application like this for the sky. Google Earth is massively useful, and a planetarium app would be too. Well, today, Google has released a version of Google Earth that maps the sky. I don't like it. You read that right. I don't like it. Well, to be clear, I don't like it yet. I think this version is lacking some basic necessities, but once they (and some tweaks) are added this will be a pretty cool app. For one thing, when I clicked the button to start it, it said it was loading the sky above my current location. However, it doesn't tell me what that current location is. It doesn't tell me what time of day it's using -- the sky moves, so time is crucial. It doesn't move the ...

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