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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
Skybird I have looked at the Worl Wide Telescope, only thing is you have to install silverlight..
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Is this so - well, I had Silverlight installed before, and thus did not recognise it is needed for WWT also. However, that should be no porblen, I am not aware of any problems with Silverlight. It is something like a downtuned .NET environment which also never has given me any reasons for concerns, I think it was Google Earth depending on .NET. So in all honesty I only can say: Silverlight should not cause any fears. If there is problematic stuff going on with it, I am not aware of it, nor are my scanners.
Anyhow, youtube has many videos available for or from or about it.
It is in principle a planetarium, wehre zooming into any given point of the sky gives you access to the giant database of professional images from satellites, observatories, and different sensors types that - oin photographic quality that you do not see in standard planetarium software. These ics are the real stuff, the real pics they have shot at, the software is kind of a very clever user itnerfae to access the database much like you access the database of Google earth photography. In a given image, you also have the option to choose amongst the availably image so9urces, sensor types, and combine different images of the given object, if the database hold according photography. So, opyu zoom to the thing you want to look at, you choose amongst the variety of satellites and obsrvatopries that attributed images to that objct, you choose the image type you want to get (visual, infrared, x-ray, etc), and there you are. So, it does much more than Google Earth does. It gives you your own supertelescope, so tpo speak, and you can do with it and look at what ever you want. It is your entrance ticket into the biggest database of astronomic photography that I know of. They also jave many tours, that are preprogrammed shows for edcuational purproses for example, like oyu know it from Celestia, for example - just that this is done much more professionally and visually much more stunning, offering more options. you can also program your own tours.
I understand your love for your telescope, Xabba, it reminds me of the fascination I felt when having that microscope back then. but I also saw the big difference between that cheap thing - and the laboratory microscopes we had at school back then (early 80s). Microscope cpurses where just once a week, so on the other days I stayed with what I had, since there was no virtual microscope on no internet, and since I had training almost every day I had little time anyway.