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February 2009 - WWT Data Blog

  • WWT Academic Development Kit

    We have put out a couple of tools for people to convert their own data to WWT format. You can process pictures of individual objects in the sky using WWT StudyChopper , and low and medium resolution panoramas, planetary textures, and sky surveys using...
  • SkyView Queries

    As you may or may not know, NASA's SkyView service (led by Tom McGlynn) has been extremely helpful to getting WWT running, providing data for over half our surveys. They've put out a heat map showing the most frequently accessed regions of the...
    Published 02-05-2009 7:02 PM by dinos
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  • Tips and Tricks II

    Foreground Studies So there you are, happily making a tour and want to fade in a picture of some study. You get your camera all aligned, and then click on the thumbnail of the study. And then WWT promptly moves to a new position so that you can see the...
    Published 02-08-2009 7:43 PM by dinos
  • New Datasets in WWT

    Those using WWT today may notice some new datasets in there. Preliminary versions of these datasets have been in the WWT Data and Experimental communities for the past month. You can find them under All-Sky Surveys. The DSS Smoothed dataset is a initial...
    Published 02-04-2009 4:22 PM by dinos
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