[APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

[Paul Rodman]

What I was interested in was the web version (using Silverlight I  
believe) which had the same functionality but was a bit slower. That  
would work (I'm guessing) on the Mac. However there's no sign of it on  
the website (http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/), unless  I'm getting  
old, or it hasn't been released to the unwashed masses. The  
professional astronomers and astronomy students at the talk weren't  
interested in running it on Windows.

Paul R.

On Feb 20, 2009, at 05:12 AM, Tim Long wrote:

> WWT is a fantastic educational tool but it is not going to replace
> things like AP, Starry Night, etc because it serves a different  
> purpose.
> Jonathan has a lot of infrastructure that he can take for granted,  
> which
> is part of the answer to "how do they do that?". When WWT was first
> announced, the ASCOM web site collapsed under the strain of people
> downloading the ASCOM platform.
>
> --Tim
>
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> Subject: [APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope
>
> I went to a talk today by Jonathan Fay of Microsoft Research in which
> he talked about and demonstrated World Wide Telescope. I am
> intimidated. I realise that it's probably many man-years of work by
> many professional developers, but it's so slick and fast that I am
> quite at a loss to figure out how they do it. Pity it's Windows-only.
>
> I did get a few ideas for AP V3 though...
>
> Paul R.