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How can the ecliptic be shown in Google Sky (part of the Google Earth application)?
Is it possible in v5.0 (I am using 5.0.11733.9347 for Windows) or in a later version?
Google Groups question This application needs the ECLIPTIC seems to indicate it is not possbible whereas Using Google Earth's Sky feature in your classroom says "Use the Constellations layer to examine the concept of the ecliptic" (this is not very clear and does not explain how). I have turned on the Constellation layer, but the ecliptic does not show. It should be a line from the upper left, through the center and to the lower right of this view:
Perhaps it is possible. From Google Sky: hands on, plus Top 10 uncommonly cool sights:
Yes, the bright curve is indeed the galactic plane and the fainter one the ecliptic.
But how?
Peter Mortensen
Posted 2011-09-18T15:40:51.883
Reputation: 10 992
None of those links seem to really point at the actual ecliptic in Google Earth, just google.com/sky and a suggestion of how to examine where it might be in Google Earth. You might try asking this on astronomy.stackexchange.com. You might also checkout Celestia http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html and Partiview http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/partiview for sky viewing.
– polynomial – 2011-09-18T18:28:41.837