tirsdag den 7. oktober 2008

WorldWide Telescope Stars in Virtual Earth


Verdensrummet får mig kun til at føle mig meget lille. Hvor stjernerne er lige nu betyder ikke så meget for mig, men for amatørastronomen og sikkert også astrologen er det ikke uden betydning.
/Sik


Space make me feel so tiny small. Where the stars are right now doesn't mean much to me but if you are an amateur astronomer or even an astrologer it means a lot.
/Sik


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So, what did we take from WWT? The constellations. More specifically, the stars. In thelatest release of the Virtual Earth 3D control, we included the accurate placement of stars in space. The stars are drawn leveraging the Hipparcos catalogue and differ based on magnitude and color. The Hipparcos (HIgh Precision PARallax COlletion Satellite) catalogue is the de facto measurement of the stellar parallax and the proper motion of the stars.

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Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2008/10/06/worldwide-telescope-stars-in-virtual-earth.aspx

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