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Yeah, the GalexView virtual telescope is a lot of fun!
The interesting thing about it is that sometimes there is little to see......yet at other times there are big surprises.
Putting all-sky imaging data into a "virtual sky" interface such as:
//server1.wikisky.org
and
//skyserver.sdss.org/dr8/en/tools/chart
makes it a lot of fun to explore the sky.
I see this technology as potentially enabling amateurs to find peculiarities, anomalies, unusual phenomena, etc., which have escaped the notice of professional astronomers.
(it is already happening with SDSS and the Galaxyzoo collaboration)
cheers,
madbadgalaxyman
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