http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/archive/tags/heat+map/default.aspxTags: heat mapenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/archive/2009/02/05/skyview-queries.aspxFri, 06 Feb 2009 01:02:23 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:4446dinos1http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=4446http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/commentapi.aspx?PostID=4446http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/archive/2009/02/05/skyview-queries.aspx#comments<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~dinos/wwtexp/wwtexperimental_signup.wtml"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px;" height="49" alt="WWT Experimental Community" src="http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/WindowsLiveWriter/SkyViewQueries_E176/image_9.png" width="183" align="right" border="0" /></a> As you may or may not know, NASA&#39;s <a href="http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/">SkyView</a> service (led by Tom McGlynn) has been extremely helpful to getting WWT running, providing data for over half our surveys. They&#39;ve put out a <a href="http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/blog/index.php/2009/01/07/where-are-people-interested-in/">heat map</a> showing the most frequently accessed regions of the sky since mid 2007. You can read about it in this <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news152985391.html">Physorg article</a> and view the heat map in the <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~dinos/wwtexp/wwtexperimental_signup.wtml">WWT Experimental Community</a>. </p> <p>Here are a couple of screenshots crossfaded between the green heat map and the DSS. </p> <p>In the first shot, you can see the plane of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud are often accessed on SkyView. </p> <p><a href="http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/WindowsLiveWriter/SkyViewQueries_E176/image_6.png"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px;" height="331" alt="image" src="http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/WindowsLiveWriter/SkyViewQueries_E176/image_thumb_2.png" width="698" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>In the second screenshot, you can see often-accessed regions near Orion&#39;s Belt, the Pleaides, and the Cone Nebula.&nbsp; And Sirius too...</p> <p><a href="http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/WindowsLiveWriter/SkyViewQueries_E176/image_4.png"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px;" height="379" alt="image" src="http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/WindowsLiveWriter/SkyViewQueries_E176/image_thumb_1.png" width="702" border="0" /></a> </p> <p>Finally, you can also see the footprint of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.</p> <p><a href="http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/WindowsLiveWriter/SkyViewQueries_E176/image_13.png"><img style="border-right:0px;border-top:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom:0px;" height="286" alt="image" src="http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/wwt_data_blog/WindowsLiveWriter/SkyViewQueries_E176/image_thumb_5.png" width="704" border="0" /></a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://community.research.microsoft.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=4446" width="1" height="1">heat mapSkyView