Microsoft launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday.
The free Web-based application allows users to zoom around the universe and browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics.
The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft high performance Visual Experience Engine, which allows seamless panning and zooming around the heavens with rich image environments. Worldwide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies, and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky. People can freely browse through the solar system, galaxy and beyond, or take advantage of a growing number of guided tours of the sky hosted by astronomers and educators at major universities and planetariums
View: WorldWide Telescope
The free Web-based application allows users to zoom around the universe and browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics.
The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft high performance Visual Experience Engine, which allows seamless panning and zooming around the heavens with rich image environments. Worldwide Telescope stitches together terabytes of high-resolution images of celestial bodies, and displays them in a way that relates to their actual position in the sky. People can freely browse through the solar system, galaxy and beyond, or take advantage of a growing number of guided tours of the sky hosted by astronomers and educators at major universities and planetariums
View: WorldWide Telescope
EDIT: Alright, just tried it... it's really neat. The interface is nice and it feels pretty smooth.
Last edited by Avi on 13 May 2008 - 09:50
Starry Night Pro is better.
It does almost everything google earth does and more. It can zoom in on earth and find streets just not too far in like google earth. Its still a beta though.
It also has guided space tours whith speech. Which I thought was pretty cool.
Peace,
James Rose
New York City
This program is pretty decent, but it won't replace Stellarium for me. Stellarium helps me locate the planets and other destinations for the night's viewing.
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