Thanks to a heads-up from the Very Spatial folks, I was turned on to WikiSky - this is a compilation of data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and a number of other catalogs and efforts, into a Google Maps type interface, where users can pan, zoom, and select objects, to get detailed reports.
For example, a user can type in a Messier Catalog number (M45 in this example) and be whisked right to the area of interest on the sky map. Objects in the catalog are hyperlinked, and clicking on them (ηTau/Alcyone in the Taurus constellation below) pulls up a detailed report, complete with great photos, analyses, and hyperlinks to a wide variety of rich sources specific to the objects of interest:
This is an excellent resource for any amateur astronomer - far more info than I ever imagined possible back when I spent many a night out in the back yard with my telescope...
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