WorldWide Telescope

Filed Under (Misc.) by Kirby Witmer on 13-05-2008

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Microsoft yesterday released a beta version of its WorldWide Telescope. I downloaded and installed it this morning and was quite impressed with quality of the imagery. Take a look at these incredible images.

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WorldWide Telescope Image Of Saturn

WorldWide Telescope Image Of Venus

You will need to have a fairly fast computer in order to even run WorldWide Telescope however. The minium requirements according to Microsoft are:

  • PC with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2 gigahertz (GHz) or faster, recommended
  • 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM; 2 GB RAM recommended
  • 3D accelerated card with 128 megabytes (MB) RAM; discrete graphics card with dedicated 256-MB VRAM recommended for higher performance
  • 1 GB of available hard disk space; 10 GB recommended for off-line features and higher performance browsing

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