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  • Sticking images on the sky with WWT

    Suppose you have a photograph of a small part of the sky, and you want to see it in WWT and share it with friends. Here’s how you can do so. We assume that the image (and, if you wish, a thumbnail) is already internet-accessible. All you need to do is...
    Published 11-27-2008 12:48 AM by dinos

  • Prelinimary SDK documentation now available

    We are releasing a preview of the SDK documentations for people to get started using the WWT Web control and better documenting WTML, communities and other API's associated with WorldWide Telescope. Links to the on-line documentation can be found...
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  • 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...
    Published 02-05-2009 4:39 AM by dinos

  • WTML files for new WWT data

    Finally! The summer is almost done in the Seattle area and it will soon be ... rainy again. Rain is, of course, highly conducive to productivity as it forces folks to stay indoors and catch up on their debugging... More importantly, we've been working...
    Published 09-01-2008 6:36 AM by dinos

  • WWT Data Communities (including an improved DSS background!)

    W always have more data in the works that has yet to make it to the main WWT datasets. If you would like to have a look at them, join these two communities. To join the WWT Data Community, click here ! The datasets in here are as reliable as other datasets...
    Published 11-16-2008 11:18 PM by dinos

  • How WTML files work

    WTML stands for Worldwide Telescope Markup Language. It is one of three file formats native to WWT, the others being WTT files to store tours and WWTFIG to store constellation figures. If you want to host any such files on your servers,  you will...
    Published 11-19-2008 4:19 PM by dinos

  • WorldWide Telescope Escapes to the web!

    Well we have done it now. Just like sky-net, we have broken the bonds of installation and hopped on to the web. Last week we announced our preview of the new WWT Web client. The web client not only allows access to a large part of WWT's functionality...
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  • 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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  • Types of Data in WWT

    Welcome to the WWT Data Blog. This is where we will post details of new data sets as they come in, and ask for volunteers to help us with data and image processing tasks. (Yes, we need volunteers - we're just a small group within Microsoft Research...
    Published 06-05-2008 4:43 AM by dinos

  • Example Panoramas from Denver

    Strictly speaking, the following post has got nothing to do with WWT being used in astronomy. Actually, that remains the case even if you remove the 'strictly speaking' qualifier. It is, however, rather cool. So... go have a look at the file kcyupanos...
    Published 09-25-2008 3:29 PM by dinos
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  • WWT Equinox Beta out today!

    Today, t he WorldWide Telescope gets an update ... a major update. Just have a look at this screenshot... That's right - WWT has gone 3D . You can fly through the Solar System now! And keep flying out, out through the hundred thousand stars in the...
    Published 10-29-2008 12:14 PM by dinos

  • WWT Tips 1

    Here are, in no particular order, some tips for WWT users. (PS: Anyone seen the new tours that went up this week, for WALL-E , the first pictures of extrasolar planets, and a farewell to the Phoenix Lander?) Q: How can I slow down the way WWT zooms? A1...
    Published 11-15-2008 1:03 PM by dinos

  • AVM tagged-images

    Users would like to use WWT to view their own images, and be able to share them with their friends. Some of this is possible already, and more work is happening at our end to make it easier to do so. This post is about a new metadata format out there...
    Published 08-09-2008 8:51 PM by dinos

  • Making your own WWT Community

    Communities are the primary way in which WWT users can share data and tours with each other. They are made by external individuals or organizations, such as planetariums, science centres, astronomy clubs, magazines, blogs, schools, classes, and class...
    Published 11-19-2008 5:28 PM by dinos

  • 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
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