Week 4

For this week’s homework I tried the SkyView app on android and it gave me information I didn’t think was possible. It provided not only star and planet locations, but it also gave information about each star cluster as it was layered in. It also provided constellation drawings like Aries and other constellations with brief history of the signs. This is almost phenomenal in that information extremely hard to achieve, that usually takes years of study, in a matter of minutes. Things like this information being available brings a new perspective in the technologies and information’s available when we only look at the sky.

One way we can use other data in this type of application is that we can see moon patterns changing and monitored just by looking at the sky. With religions and other faiths believing in special days based on specific moon pattern, we will now have access to without having to do much studying and analysis.

Another way we can use this type of application without constant and multiple days of analysis is weather. We can see these windspeeds and current flow as we merely look at the sky. Weather patterns are a constant thing that people worry about daily. Especially in this time when our planet has become more warmer than ever before and natural disasters being as destructive as they are becoming a constant thing. Most of these disasters happens to become worst as people are really not aware of the information that the weather produces as well as its pattern. With this information in their hands and ready without news feeds we start to see people becoming more aware of not only the windspeed and temperature. We start to see the patterns of a storm or natural disaster forming making the user be more prepared for any such disaster to occure.