The Night Sky Podcast + Stellarium

I've recently developed a strong interest in astronomy, and found two things worth checking out: The Night Sky podcast and Stellarium software. Stellarium is, "a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. … Just set your coordinates and go." It's available for Linux, Mac and Windows. The Naked Eye is blogged here, but you can find it on iTunes by doing a search for "Andrew Douch," creator. Douch is a professor at a local school in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, and initially set up the podcast for his students, describing the night sky in his part of the world. If you put the coordinates for Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, into Stellarium you can see the same night sky Douch desribes in his podcast. Even if you don't find this stuff as interesting as I do, it's pretty amazing how technology literally puts the world at your fingertips. And it's free to everyone.