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Try posting your question again. I dont think anything was intentionally deleted at this end.
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Roberto This is a known issue with ASCOM 5.0 and 64 bit Windows. A new platform, ASCOM 5.5, should be available very shortly (weeks perhaps) which should address the 64 bit issues. I believe a release candidate version of this software is available through various Ascom talk groups, or you could wait for the main site to be updated.
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Well it all seems to work. The software has been updated to enable spheric mirror distortion - so the image appears undistorted when projected onto the dome, and the planetarium itself is complete. It works great - though we have found the cheaper mirrors give off unwanted multiple "ghost" images, and first surface mirrors work great but are a bit more expensive. The next step will be working with a few schools that volunteer to build the thing - and recycle their feedback into the construction
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Howard The simple answer is your system is too old to run WWT. No you don't need the DirectX SDK, but you do need a card and system that will run DirectX version 9.0c - WWT will not run on any earlier version.
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Good question. In fact there is also a hole at the North Pole, though it is much less noticeable. The reason is an historical one, based on the source material used to provide images of the Earth. In the Earth view, the source material was maps that used the Mercator projection system. This system preserves angles but at the expense of distorting large objects and it is mathematically impossible to map the poles. Rather than filling in the gaps in some way, the decision was made to leave the result
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New releases of both the Windows Client, and Web Client, versions of WorldWide Telescope are now available for download. Called the Aphelion beta, the new releases contain a range of new features. The Windows Client has upgraded graphics for the popular Solar System view - including the Sun's halo, nighttime lighting on the Earth, and eclipse shadows on Jupiter from its four largest moons. The cosmos is now enabled by default, and a viewer can zoom out from the Solar System to view the Milky
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So far so good. The images below show the cardboard triangles being assembled into a geodesic dome - and the "hobbit house" below it shows the dome angled at 20 degrees on the wooden support. The next stage is to calibrate the dome and test the projector/mirror system. The dome so far has cost around $600 in cardboard, wood, clips, paint, tape, brushes, rollers, hinges and handles and other minor bits of hardware.
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This is still a work-in-progress, but as part of a Microsoft Research/schools project we are building a prototype planetarium out of cardboard and particleboard. The "dome" is a geodesic dome built out of triangles of cardboard and strong binder clips. The base of the dome forms a decagon (10-sided figure), but as the dome is titled 20 degrees, the dome support forms an elliptical decagon, and is made out of half inch particleboard to provide a solid base for the dome. The diagram shows
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Hernan, If you right-click on an object in WorldWide Telescope you will see the Finder Scope, select Research, then you can look up the object in a range of databases, including Wikipedia which seems to have an excellent amount of information on many planets, stars, galaxies, and other stellar objects. Currently we do not have any plans to add more information directly into the Finder Scope, given such good information can be located fairly easily on the internet. I hope this answers you question