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Glad you like WWT, satrionic (though I certainly wouldn't suggest giving up time with the your real scopes. There's nothing like an ancient photon in the eye. :)) And for your other question, yes, you can click the little drop-down arrow off the View button and then copy the view to your clipboard. we hope you keep having fun. keep those cards and letters coming! Z.
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I'm guessing you mean this location . it shows up on the DSS source image , but not in any of the other bands I looked at. I can convince myself that it's got a vertical line running though it, so I think it's a telescope imaging artifact .
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cool! there are a bunch of panorama-creating tools listed at http://wiki.panotools.org/Windows_software . (I haven't used any of these myself, but I've loaded a bunch of equirectangular panoramas in WWT & they look great.)
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The Phoenix panorama dataset won't be complete until sol 4 (tomorrow), according to today's press release ( http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/05_28_pr.php ). I'm hoping that once it's out, it won't be too long before there's a high-res equirectangular panorama from either the Phoenix team or stitched together by somebody on the interwebs. then you'll just be able to point WWT at the panorama address. Ideally, there will be one directly accessible inside WWT, but the nice
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You bet. Click the View tab, and in the upper left corner (where the "Constellation Lines" box is), uncheck the "Figures" item.
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While Dinoj wasn't explicit about this, you can point to any 360-degree panorama that's on a web site, so you don't even have to have a local copy of it. I tried a couple of random ones on Flickr, and they worked beautifully. (though you have to wait until the whole image is pulled in, since those aren't served at multiple zoom levels by a tile server.) Neat.
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If you find that WWT doesn't run as fast as you'd expect on your laptop, you may be artificially capped on processor power. if you're on Vista, try running the "High Performance" power plan -- you can just click on the battery icon in your system tray to have a look. (sorry, I don't remember the language on XP.) I usually run my laptop in Power Saver mode, because my laptop (a Toshiba R400) is happy running Vista's Aero theme and a whole gaggle of other concurrent apps
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When you find something espcially beautiful in the sky and you want to share it with somebody else, you can right-click on its image in the context bar and choose Copy Shortcut. You can also do the same thing from the Finder (Explore.Show Finder) from the Research button. then you can paste it into an email, a blog post, or pretty much anything else. For example, check out the almost-creepy filaments of the Crab Nebula , the galactic pair M81 and M82 (visible with a pair of binoculars!), or the rich
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Here's a handy trick, especially for computers with lower-speed connections: Open a collection (Hubble, Spitzer, etc.) and then play it as a slide show (Explore.Play collection as slide show). This will fill your cache with the images for each of those items, and give you the surrounding stellar background as well. Subsequent visits to any of those objects will be much faster. You can do a similar thing with tours with Guided Tours.Auto Repeat. Enjoy!