sky

Mon
19
May
Dennis Faas's picture

Navigating Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope

Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope (WWT) uses Microsoft's Virtual Experience Engine to combine images from various telescopes and observatories into a seamless panorama of the night sky. Launched Monday, the brainchild of Microsoft's research ... department is a downloadable desktop application that brings the universe to your home computer. (Source microsoft.com ) Forget Google Earth, the WWT combines images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the Two Micron All Sky Survey. Users can investigate the night sky in several different ... (view more)

Fri
09
Sep
Dennis Faas's picture

'Live Kd', and 'Sky Fex'

Live Kd LiveKd, a utility that allows you to view the local system as if it were a crash dump using the standard Microsoft kernel debuggers. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Livekd.html Sky Fex SkyFex Remote Assistant is a free service that ... allows seeing what is happening on the remote computer desktop in real time. This is a secure service, does not require additional software installation and configuration and works transparently through proxy/firewall and NAT networks. SkyFex is Windows based and requires Internet Explorer to run it. No special knowledge is necessary to work with the ... (view more)

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