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  1. Link to an error in FAQ by gameboyhippo · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope

    In their FAQ page, I wanted to learn more, so I clicked the provided link and got an ASP.net error page. It's been a long time since I've seen one.

    http://worldwidetelescope.org/...

  2. Re:So...what is this? by adolf · · Score: 2 · on Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope

    Agreed at the poor state of the TFS, and TFA.

    It appears to be a Google Earth for stars. And there is an HTML5 web client, which amused me for a few minutes.

  3. Re:So...what is this? by rochrist · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope

    I noticed that. But if you scroll to the bottom of the WWT homepage, there's a pretty informative FAQ. http://worldwidetelescope.org/...

  4. What it is by Lord+Duran · · Score: 3, Informative · on Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope

    About

    The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a visualization environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the world’s best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the universe. WWT blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. Explorers of all ages will feel empowered to explore and understand the cosmos using WWT’s simple and powerful user interface.

    Source: their website.

  5. Home planetarium by rlseaman · · Score: 1 · on GPU-Powered Planetarium Renders 64MP Projection

    Somebody mentioned wanting a planetarium at home. This is very doable. The current version of WorldWide Telescope:

            http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

    supports a very straightforward remapping onto a dome through multiple projectors (don't know about the military grade nonsense). There's a calibration screen that handles all the geometry. Just need some baffling to minimize the overlap between projectors.

    Navigating through the Sloan galaxies is very impressive on a planetarium dome. WWT also displays a half million objects in the asteroid belt, Kuiper belt, etc in real-time (or in accelerated motion) using that space-age GPU technology. (Of course, "real-time" is another overused buzzword.)

    Supports Kinect controls for the game addicts.

  6. WorldWide Telescope by rlseaman · · Score: 2 · on Worldwide Night Sky Stitched Together In 5 Gigapixel Image

    Very neat little project!

    Once you build a digital image archive of the sky, various whole sky browsers become possible. The gold standard for such is WorldWide Telescope:

    http://worldwidetelescope.org/

    This permits overlaying various sky surveys at different wavelengths, not just a single picture of the sky.

    The web client is very nice, but the Windows client is something else again. (This is a Microsoft Research project.) You should see it on a planetarium dome.

    Google has another:

    http://www.google.com/sky/ ...as well as an Google Earth based client to install.

  7. Re:Ask NASA: by wfleming · · Score: 1 · on What Objects To Focus On For School Astronomy?

    Take a look at World Wide Telescope from Microsoft research. its still in infancy, but there are already some pretty cool guided tours, even just browsing the galaxy is fun-- you can zoom in and pan tilt / turn the planets... It looks great on 1080p large screen TV. I always imagine sharing this kind of thing with students and have them explore it... but I'm not a teacher, but my kids and I play with it. It also orients the horizons according to your location http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

  8. Re:Google Universe? by rlseaman · · Score: 1 · on Aussie Scientists Build a Cluster To Map the Sky

    I wanna see some of the cosmos up close before i die.

    Look at the WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft Research: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ and Sky from Google: http://www.google.com/sky/about.html

    These fill somewhat different niches and both provide compiled and web-based clients.

  9. Re:Home version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Inside the World's Most Advanced Planetarium

    I have found http://worldwidetelescope.org/ quite entertaining.

  10. Running setupwwt.exe launches Cygwin Setup? by mcnazar · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope

    Just downloaded setupwwt.exe from http://www.worldwidetelescope.org./

    Launching setupwwt.exe brings up the Cygwin Net Release Setup Program on my system!

    I don't see the astronomy link in Cygwin... but I've just had a little play with Cygwin and I am amazed but what I have been missing.

    If Linux is just a tiny bit like Cygwin then here I come!

    Thanks again Microsoft.

  11. Home page by opec · · Score: 1 · on Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope

    Check out the home page of the WWTelescope.

    Is anyone else feeling absolutely creeped out by the "kids react to WWT" video?

  12. For 16 years we have provided spin... by mattpalmer1086 · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
    The technology looks very cool, but Microsoft just can't resist spinning even where there doesn't seem to be any need at all. Check out the FAQ at worldwidetelescope: http://worldwidetelescope.org/buzz/FAQ.aspx

    Q. When did Microsoft first starting looking at the sky?
    A. For 16 years, Microsoft has invested, and will continue to invest, in long-term, broad-based research through Microsoft Research. WorldWide Telescope is built on work that started with Jim Gray's SkyServer and his contributions to Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Sky Server (a portal to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) was first released in 2001. Aside from the poor grammar in the question, reading that answer just made my skin crawl...
  13. The Video by aembleton · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope

    Curtis Wong explains what you can do, 5.15 into the video. Before that it is a load of boring talk about how it will allow us all to explore the universe and increase our understanding, etc but with some cool pictures of what you can expect to see from the world wide telescope. It will be a free download this spring from http://worldwidetelescope.org/

    I for one, am looking forward to this. I'm sure someone will ask if it can run on Linux. I've no idea, but I can't see it being that hard for Wine to get it working.