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Telescope doesn't work

Roberto Tenorio — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

After downloading ASCOM and noting that the "installed" notice appeared, I tried to check if telescope worked by clicking on the "Choose" button

The following message was sent instead of the selection images that WWT says should be gotten

"Error ' - 2147220416 (80040440)' execution time Failed to open / create root registry key (5)"

Apheilon Beta version used for WWT

Windows Vista Home Premium

Internet Explorer 8

Thanks for your help

Roberto

Do-it-yourself Planetarium

PeterTurcan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

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 the idea.

The reason for the 20 degree tilt is to provide a much better experience for the students when traveling through space - a vertical projection will give the impression that the planet or star is "falling" onto the viewers, whereas a view forward will give the impression of traveling to that planet or star. It is also simply more comfortable to look forward than to look up.

The projector and mirror are placed on a table to the right of the door in the image above.

Plans for building this planetarium (assuming of course it works!) will be posted shortly.

After ASCOM driver install for Telescope Blue Screen

ljheiland — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:00:00 GMT

After I install the ASCOM drive my WWT has a Blue Screen and the PC crashes.

Any idea what might be happening? Or a fix?

Window XP used. WWT runs nicely until I install the ASCOM driver ofr my Mount.

Leo

WWT Equinox Beta out today!

dinos — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Today, the WorldWide Telescope gets an update ... a major update, as shown by this screenshot:

That's right - WWT has gone 3D . You can fly through the Solar System now, or zoom out further to see our place in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way's place as one of half a million galaxies found by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

We have also added several other new features, including the following:

* Tour animation - text and inserted images can expand, contract, move, spin, fade, etc within a slide.

* WWT can now be localized to your language of choice. (And you can help with the localization efforts.) To begin with, we've added a second language - Simplified Chinese.

* More data:

* Hundreds of new images from the Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer space telescopes

* A new Astrophotography section, with images from renowned astrophotographer Jack Newton.

* New surveys : GALEX in the ultraviolet band, Fermi in the gamma-ray band, as well as sixteen surveys about the Cosmic Microwave Background from the WMAP Science Team's Five Year release.

* Fifty new panoramas of Mars and the Moon, from the Phoenix, Spirit, Opportunity, Pathfinder, and Apollo missions. Some are red-blue anaglyphs, so get your 3d glasses out!

Those are the primary features, but there are several others:

* cone searching with NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database) returning results as VOTables

* pressing F11 to enter and leave a full-screen mode

* saving to Desktop wallpaper

* changing planet sizes between Actual and Visible

* using a Xbox Controller or 3d Connexion Navigator

* going to locations defined using coordinate systems other than J2000

* textures on Saturnian and Uranian moons

* Earth globes where you can see polar regions

* panoramas of telescopes at Mauna Kea

Upcoming (in the next month)

* Utilities for you to get your own data and images into WorldWide Telescope format, and to produce WTML files - the XML format that WWT uses.

* The long awaited details on how to set up your own WWT Communities.

For more details and screenshots, see the WWT Data Blog.

To try it out, head over to the heavily revamped WorldWide Telescope website.

And please send your comments, positive and negative, to wwtpage@microsoft.com .

And keep checking the forums !

If you're in the press or a blogger, you might find these useful:

Re: Not Connecting to the Internet, Proxy issues, Offline Mode?

mrinal dhillon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT

i don't have a proxy server i use reliance broadband on my notebook i get the same message every one else is having problem with the only difference is that i don't have any proxy what should i do.

3d graphics

CHECKOUTCURTIS — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Hello,

I am still getting stuck on the final loading due to an error message while clicking on the desktop icon - "You need 3d Graphics and DirectX installed to run this application".

I have loaded the DirectX, but am unsure how to approach the issue of the 3d Graphics...

Could anyone please help me?

I am using a Dell XPS w/ service pack 2.

Thanks so much, Curt

unable to install

antanas — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Unable to install the application.Error message reads:-

THE CABINET FILE '_F59BC35F4CC9FF5B5DB5EFAE64D04299' REQUIRED FOR THIS INSTALLATION IS CORRUPT AND CANNOT BE USED.

Any ides how to get around this?

TIA

Ant

Re: Proxy Info : What Holes to Open

csharpner — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

What about adding proxy capabilities to the application? For example, in Windows Live Messenger, I have to tell it what proxy server I use and provide credentials, otherwise, it can't get to the outside world. There doesn't seem to be any way to do that in WorldWide Telescope. I'm still unable to use it at work. Works great from home though!!! :)