[APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

[Marius Strom]

Silverlight client is out:  http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/


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From: "Marius Strom" <marius at thestroms.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:42 AM
To: "AstroPlanner Beta Testers" <apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net>
Subject: Re: [APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

> 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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