Anybody tried a program called "StarryNight"?
I'd definitely recommend it for anybody into astronomy. The educational material and movies that come with it are really cool.. but the actual program, that lets you fly around the universe, is amazing. You can get a real sense of how big the universe really is by just pointing at a far constellation and telling it to fly you there. The weird thing about it, is it isn't like you'd expect... like Star Trek with all the stars wizzing past you. As soon as you leave our solar system..even though you're still going millions of miles an hour, the stars are mostly still until you begin to get close to them, then one or two will fly past and the rest are still for another couple of minutes.
It's a weird feeling to be able to leave our own constellation and look back at how small we really are.