Worldwide Telescope App Added To Bing Maps
WorldWide Telescope Review
Microsoft unveiled the WorldWide Telescope application about two years ago as a standalone desktop software using Silverlight technology. That was some sort of Microsoft’s answer to a similar web-based Google application, Google Sky.
WorldWide Telescope allows you to explore the outer space through the collaboration with Earthbound telescopes and the Hubble telescope. The application also enable you to zoom around Earth and play with 3D models of any other planets of solar system. But the application doesn’t just serve to identify constellations and planets and see planet panoramic shots. It allows you to upload astronomy data from the Hubble Telescope data center, different sky surveys and other space data sources.
Worldwide Telescope Bing Maps
WorldWide Telescope on Bing Maps
The recent integration of Microsoft Worldwide Telescope with the popular Microsoft’s mapping website – Bing Maps – allows you to stargaze directly from its interface. Through a richly featured, navigation menu you can get detailed sky views from any geo-point of orientation.
Get Directions
The “Get Space Directions” navigation works very well with WWT Bing Maps: you can switch to a telescope pointer, or choose to access astronomy data collected by partnering survey centers. Among them are, for instance, Hubble Studies, All-Sky Surveys, Spitzer Studies, Constellations, Solar System society, NOAO Studies, Chandra Studies, Astrophotography society, Messier Catalog, Radio Studies, Gemini Studies, Panoramas and many others. Just click on a collection, which will bring you down to Earth and change the map application style to Bing Streetside view.
