World Wide Telescope

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A nice new program from Microsoft.  Install this and you won't be disappointed. 

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

                              The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment
that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing
together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the
world for a seamless exploration of the universe. 

 Choose from a growing number
of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of
the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel
free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple
information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the
tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a
journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars
and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike
Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens
bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years
into the past. 

Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of
Jim Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and
education communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower
people to explore and understand the universe like never before.

Enjoy.

Cheers
Mark

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MarkH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Chief Pilot Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Location: UK Points: 1570	Post Options Post Reply Quote MarkH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: World Wide Telescope Posted: 14 May 2008 at 12:53am
	A nice new program from Microsoft. Install this and you won't be disappointed. http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe. Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past. Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of Jim Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and education communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower people to explore and understand the universe like never before. Enjoy. Cheers Mark

MarkH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Chief Pilot Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Location: UK Points: 1570	Post Options Post Reply Quote MarkH Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 May 2008 at 1:44am
	An introduction video for WWT. http://tinyurl.com/25qa7l Cheers Mark

MartinW Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator in Command Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Location: United Kingdom Points: 26722	Post Options Post Reply Quote MartinW Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 May 2008 at 12:34pm
	Very nice mark!

VulcanB2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Chief Pilot Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Points: 13365	Post Options Post Reply Quote VulcanB2 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 May 2008 at 2:26pm
	Makes you feel so damn insignificant, doesn't it? All that out there and we're confined to arguing over who wants control of a little bit of rock on this tiny little planet. Pathetic. It really shows just how primitive we are. Best regards, Vulcan.

MartinW Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator in Command Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Location: United Kingdom Points: 26722	Post Options Post Reply Quote MartinW Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 May 2008 at 2:40pm
	Spot on Pointy Ears! Perhaps it will be like Star Trek First Contact, and the Vulcan's arrive and we all think 'oh my god, we really aren't alone'. And then all of a sudden the Star Trek ideal becomes a reality and we all love each other and live in peace.