My place from space

tornado33 · #1 22-08-2006, 09:58 AM

Hi all
Google Earth has updated its imagery, Im astounded at the detail now. I found not only my place, but my covered telescope mount is just visible (arrowed). Wider images included as well as the Newcastle Astro Society local viewing venue a few Kms awy from my place , see the circular mown area on disused Waterboard land.
How about we keep this thread going with "your place from space", use Google Earth (needs broadband to work) to find your place, or a place of interest and post it here

Scott

iceman (Mike) · #2 22-08-2006, 10:11 AM

That's amazing.. i'll have to check for my house!

snowyskiesau · #3 22-08-2006, 10:17 AM

Google Earth is amazing stuff.
I was up till 4AM recently just finding all the places I've lived.
It's also good to find out the latitude and longitude of your observing spot.

h0ughy (David) · #4 22-08-2006, 11:11 AM

where do I live scott?

RB (Andrew) · #5 22-08-2006, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by h0ughy

where do I live scott?

Wallsend NSW, Dave.

h0ughy (David) · #6 22-08-2006, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Rocket Boy

Wallsend NSW, Dave.

I knew that

jakob · #7 22-08-2006, 11:33 AM

Jakobs Place in Kellyville

snowyskiesau · #8 22-08-2006, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by jakob

Jakobs Place in Kellyville

Is the attached image from a commercial version of Google Earth? It seems to have more detail than the free version (4 beta) that I've been using.

tornado33 · #9 22-08-2006, 03:17 PM

My pics are from the free one.
Scott

glenc (Glen) · #10 22-08-2006, 03:43 PM

If you know your latitude and longitude just go to
http://maps.google.com
and type it in the search maps box.

For my place cut and paste
-28.8146, 153.0706

The quality varies from place to place.

Striker (Tony) · #11 22-08-2006, 04:33 PM

These images are very old.....I just searched for my place and going by the sat image I have not even put in my observatory.....oh well I have marked it with yellow.

Now that I have seen my house from above I should clean out those leaves in the gutter....lol

Have a close look.....not 1 blade of grass....lol

seeker372011 (Narayan) · #12 22-08-2006, 04:35 PM

wow this is great..when i last checked the image was several years old..need to see if our area has been updated as well..guess thats what I'll be doing tonight at home

RB (Andrew) · #13 22-08-2006, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Striker

Now that I have seen my house from above I should clean out those leaves in the gutter....lol

Have a close look.....not 1 blade of grass....lol

Have another look, there's a UPS delivery truck with a package from OPT.

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #14 23-08-2006, 01:39 AM

The High Res runs out about 300m from my house

I'm in the blurry bit.

RAJAH235 · #15 23-08-2006, 02:20 AM

Wow! I didn't know they'd done a high res scan of the area. Got my yellow Datsun S/wagon too.

L.

snowyskiesau · #16 23-08-2006, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by RAJAH235

Wow! I didn't know they'd done a high res scan of the area. Got my yellow Datsun S/wagon too.

L.

Looks like it could use a wash

ving (David) · #17 23-08-2006, 11:07 AM

work and home... funny, alot of the campbelltown area is fuzzy low res including my home, but when go go past (out to farm land) you can just aobut see the cows!
oh well

JohnG (John) · #18 23-08-2006, 11:16 AM

My Observatory just below the pointer, the white round thingy, out on a dairy farm with nice dark skies and my place on the coast at Bermy.

JohnG

mickoking · #19 23-08-2006, 06:03 PM

Google Earth ROCKS

Here's my place in Gozzy.

leon · #20 23-08-2006, 08:31 PM

Now thats pretty cool, just found my place.

Leon