Worldwidetelescope.org Microsoft WorldWide Telescope a copy of google sky
Microsofts WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes. Microsoft says the “final frontier got a bit closer” as the software giant officially launches the public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is now available at http://www.worldwidetelescope.org.
Very similar to Google Sky, WorldWide Telescope is a web app that brings together imagery from ground- and space-based observatories across the world to allow people to explore the night sky through their computers.
Collections include pictures from the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes, as well as the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
The web-based tool also allows users to pan and zoom around the planets, and trace their locations in the night sky.
The application itself is a blend of software and Web 2.0 services created with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine, which claims to allow “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.
WorldWide Telescope Software minimum system requirements
* Microsoft XP SP2 (minimum), Windows Vista
* 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended
* 3D accelerated card with 128 megabytes (MB) RAM; discrete graphics card with dedicated 256-MB VRAM recommended for higher performance
* 1 GB of available hard disk space; 10 GB recommended for off-line features and higher performance browsing
* XGA (1024 x 768) or higher resolution monitor
* Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing and scrolling device
* Microsoft DirectX version 9.0c and .NET Framework 2.0
* Required for some features; Internet connection at 56 Kbps or higher
worldwidetelescope.org Microsoft WorldWide Telescope a copy of google sky but still compare to Google sky worldwidetelescope is Mind blowing.
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I was playing around with this earlier. It’s pretty neat, better than Google sky for sure, which I just tested out for the first time.
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