[Chaos-l] WorldWideTelescope

[Jayme Hanzak]

I've been playing around a little and it's OK. I see that it can control a telescope using the ASCOM standards. I think I may play around with it. I use "Carte du Ceil" now and it works very well on my mount. Just right click on a dim object, tell the telescope to "Move to Object" and there it is. So I'd be curious about how this works. I'll let you know if I decide to try it. That blue screen thing frightens me.

Jayme

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Nielsen" <robertnielsen at nc.rr.com>
To: "Chapel Hill Astronomical Observation Society" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:12:34 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: [Chaos-l] WorldWideTelescope

Has anyone else out there tried the "WorldWideTelescope" 
(http://www.worldwidetelescope.org)?   It is a new sky viewing / 
planetarium from Microsoft Research, I guess to steal some of the 
thunder from Google Sky, but on my computer (which isn't a slouch 
either) it is very unimpressive!   Only shows some of the stars, the 
Andromeda Galaxy is just a blob when you say "show me in detail", and 
the display itself is a little dark and hard to see.

Starry Night or TheSky are much better alternatives, in my opinion.   
But I haven't tried Google Sky (because when I installed Google Earth, 
it started causing my computer to randomly blue screen every now and 
then ... I guess you get what you pay for).

Any other opinions?

Robert

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