Worldwide Telescope Web Client
The WorldWide Telescope Web Client is a browser-based version of WorldWide Telescope that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe from within a Web browser for Windows PC and Intel Mac OS X user.
The Web Client version of WorldWide Telescope offers a subset of the features from the WorldWide Telescope Windows® Client that was released in May 2008. Details on the feature sets for each release are outlined below.
| Feature |
Windows® Client |
Web Client |
| Access to hundreds of terabytes of sky, earth and planet data |
x |
x |
| Ability to navigate seamlessly through 3D spherical environments |
x |
x |
| Finder Scope to quickly identify astronomical objects |
x |
x |
| Instant thumbnail previews of tens of thousands of popular astronomical objects |
x |
x |
| Access to billions of objects in web-based astronomical catalog |
x |
x |
| Loading tours, images and other WorldWide Telescope data files on local machine |
x |
x |
| Real-time positions of planets and moons |
x |
x |
| Move forwards and backwards in time 2000 years |
x |
x |
| View guided tours* |
x |
x (tours without
Solar System View) |
| Browsing local user collections |
x |
x |
| Ability to change viewing location |
x |
x |
| Basic Solar System View |
x |
|
| 3D navigation of stars, Milky Way and cosmos |
x |
|
| Copy shortcuts to the Sky |
x |
x |
| Easy image alignment for user-imported images |
x |
|
| Ability to author/edit guided tours |
x |
|
| Localized versions available |
x |
|
| Terrain/elevation model |
x |
|
| Offline mode |
x |
|
| XBOX controller/3D connection |
x |
|
| Professional features |
| Virtual Observatory Cone search/registry look up and SIMBAD search |
x |
x |
| Load and Adjust basic FITS images and AVM files |
x |
x |
| SIAP with footprint preview |
x |
x |
| Connect your Telescope to WWT |
x |
x |
| Multi-monitor cluster rendering |
x |
|
| Visualization of large scale structure |
x |
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| SAMP Inter-application communication |
x |
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| Full dome projection |
x |
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WorldWide Telescope Web Client System Requirements
The WorldWide Telescope Web Client requires Silverlight 3.0 and runs on Silverlight 3.0-supported systems. Performance will vary based on processor speed, RAM, Graphics card and window size.