CyberSky (TM) is a colorful, easy-to-use program that transforms your computer screen into a planetarium, allowing you to learn about astronomy by exploring the sky in the past, present, and future.
CyberSky can truly be thought of as a desktop planetarium, because it duplicates the features of a traditional planetarium on your computer screen. CyberSky provides a superb, innovative, and motivating learning environment. It places the sky under your control.
One of CyberSky's most powerful and educational features is its ability to animate the display, allowing you to see movies of the changing appearance of the sky over time.
Many of the most basic and interesting astronomical phenomena can only be observed over days or months of time, or by observing the sky in the distant past or future. CyberSky compresses these time spans into minutes, thereby allowing you to learn things about astronomy that previously would have required days or weeks of stargazing or a trip to a planetarium to learn.
If you have an interest in learning about astronomy, CyberSky will provide hours of fun and education for you and your family.
Rein H. Warmels, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D 85748 Garching bei Muenchen Email: rwarmels@eso.orgIn particular, authors of ESO-MIDAS application software that would be of general interest for the ESO-MIDAS community, are invited to make this software available.
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Astronomers run university courses of astronomy for astronomers as well as physicists and primary and secondary school teachers. The Observatory has a public astronomical library. Research is in large part done in collaboration with the Astronomical Observatory of Padua. Reseach interests include general relativity, active galactic nuclei, close stellar binary systems, pulsars, comets and telescope automation.