Google Earth Community: ADD2SKY v1.0 Released

At the Space Telescope Science Institute, we are working to try to allow anyone to post their images onto GoogleSky in a simple manner.
While Google released a tool called wcs2kml a while ago, it was too cumbersome for simple users to install and run.

ADD2SKY will allow anyone to generate KMZ files ready for GoogleSky from their own images.

In this first release, we targeted astronomers and released ADD2SKY at the American Astronomical Society going on now in Austin, TX. However, we are working hard to allow amateurs to use ADD2SKY as well.

ADD2SKY will take a single FITS image (the format used by astronomers for images) and "warp" it to the GoogleSky sphere using a simple intuitive interface.
Either a single FITS file, which will generate a monochrome image, or a FITS file and a color image of the same field, in which case the FITS file will only be used to determine the correct image orientation and position (using something astronomers call WCS).

ADD2SKY is written in Java and runs on Windows, Macs and Linux. You can find it at ADD2SKY Page

In particular, we are working on:

Combine 3 FITS into a Color Image
Upload any image and we will figure out where it is in the sky
Allow you to have more control on the output: like adding comments, author's name etc.

Thanks to Tony Rogers at STScI for coding it all up!

Enjoy

Alberto Conti & Carol Christian
Space Telescope Science Institute
gsky.stsci.edu

Edited by AlbertoConti (01/10/08 12:54 PM)

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