[APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

[Marius Strom]

The SL functionality isn't out yet.  I'm trying to find out from Jonathan 
when it's coming, and if I can make that information public :)

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From: "Paul Rodman" <paul at ilanga.com>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:10 AM
To: "AstroPlanner Beta Testers" <apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net>
Subject: Re: [APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net
>> [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Paul  Rodman
>> Sent: 20 February 2009 03:51
>> To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
>> 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.
>
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