Great Balls Of Fire

I experience variety of guilty nearly trying to instruct everyone excited final calendar week nearly the Sky Live Ison Tracker map, entirely for Ison to come across the fate shared past times everyone who flies likewise closed to the Sun.

In compensation allow me betoken you lot instead to this map of 2013 Meteor Sightings set together past times the Montreal Gazette. The Gazette used Fusion Tables to map information from the American Meteor Society. The AMS tracks shooting star sightings closed to the world. The map shows to a greater extent than sightings inward the USA than elsewhere closed to the globe equally the society's members alive mainly inward the US.

The Photograph Map From Outer Space

Last yr Dave MacLean, from the GIS Faculty at the Centre of Geographic Sciences of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), released an amazing map of photos taken from the International Space Station.

Our World from the ISS is an ESRI map of photos, taken from the ISS posted past times @Cmdr_Hadfield as well as @AstroMarshburn on Twitter. The map allows you lot to persuasion thumbnails of the posted images. If you lot click on the thumbnail the photograph volition hence opened upward inwards a novel browser window.

Dave MacLean has directly released a novel map roofing photos from the ISS Missions forty as well as 41. All the photos are mapped to the locations shown inwards the views of the globe depicted. The map besides shows the alive lay of the International Space Station.

Mapping The Perseids

Meteor Watch's Meteor Map is starting fourth dimension to lite upward alongside activity from the Perseids shooting star shower. The Perseids shooting star shower should make it's meridian tomorrow as well as Midweek as well as thence hopefully nosotros should run across a lot to a greater extent than activeness inwards the nighttime heaven as well as on the Meteor Map.

The Meteor Map is a Google Map of Twitter reported shooting star sightings. If y'all are lucky plenty to location a shooting star y'all tin add together it to the map past times Tweeting #meteorwatch, your location (in brackets) as well as the release of meteors y'all accept seen. You tin likewise run these other hashtags to written report your Perseids shooting star sightings: #perseids, #meteors as well as #meteorshower.

The map displays all reported shooting star sightings using shooting star shaped map markers. The map likewise includes a 24-hour interval / nighttime overlay which shows the electrical flow set of daylight as well as night-time only about the world. If y'all wishing to add together the day / nighttime overlay to your ain maps it is available every bit a Google Maps utility library on GitHub.

The Solar Eclipse Map

The Solar Eclipse Finder is an Esri map that displays the path of by together with futurity solar eclipses for whatsoever place on Earth.

The tool couldn't last simpler to use. Just click on the map together with by solar eclipses at the selected place are shown on the map inward greenish together with futurity eclipse are shown inward blue. If y'all mouse-over the path of a solar eclipse y'all tin sentiment details inward the map side-bar.

The details on each eclipse include the date, fourth dimension together with the duration of the solar eclipse. The Solar Eclipse Finder includes the paths of 905 solar eclipses from 1601 to 2200.

Asteroid Mapping

In 2011 the DAWN spacecraft visited Vesta to collect information well-nigh this of import asteroid. You tin forcefulness out instantly explore Vesta yourself using NASA's Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta.

Vesta is i of the largest asteroids inward the asteroid belt, alongside a hateful diameter of 525 kilometres. The Digital Model of Asteroid Vesta allows yous to sentiment the asteroid equally a 2nd or 3d map. The map itself seems to combine a Esri map alongside a Cesium WebGL globe.


The 3d map includes a release of information overlays which render dissimilar views of the mineral make-up of Vesta. The 2nd map sentiment includes a global (equirectangular) sentiment of Vesta, a N pole sentiment as well as a southward pole view. It also includes a release of tools which let yous to mensurate distance on Vesta as well as to sentiment tiptop profiles (especially handy if yous desire to visualize the depth of Vesta's craters).

It is also worth noting that the map's labels are also interactive. If yous click on a map label yous tin forcefulness out larn to a greater extent than well-nigh the labelled characteristic as well as the name's etymology.