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Microsoft has launched its World Wide Telescope project , a free downloadable education/science application from Microsoft Research. This interesting project brings together lots of disparate data sources and also references another technology that I...
Someone on my astronomy group sent me this image today. It shows the relative scale of all the stuff we can see out there in space. Some of those little pinpricks of light are a lot bigger than you might think.
Via David Overton , there's a preview of Microsoft's " SeaDragon " technology which is a way to do deep zooming on images over the Internet and streaming exactly the right amount of data into the browser for whatever zoom level you're...
Remember Clippy? Remember Office XP? It seems like the biggest selling point of Office XP is that Microsoft took away Clippy. Those office assistants were a pretty neat idea at the time, but are now regarded scornfully. How times change. I was cleaning...
If you are developing ASCOM drivers or applications in Visual Studio (i.e. you are generating .NET code), there's a compatibility issue you should be aware of that could prevent your code from running on 64-bit systems. When you create a new project...
What do you suppose would happen if, say, a printer manufacturer produced a new, whizzy printer - the WhizzyPrinter 2000, but didn't bother to supply a driver with it? How do you think that would affect sales of the printer? What if the company PR...
I was watching the Bill Gates keynote at CES the other day when one of the presenters gave a demo of Windows Live Photo Gallery stitching together a mosaic of images into a single panorama. I have a few panoramic images so I thought I'd give it a...
That little dot glinting in a sunbeam, less than a pixel, is Earth. Not a representation; not something someone made up – an actual photograph, taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it left the solar system forever, turning to take one last picture of...
If you've never seen a naked eye comet, although this one is nowhere near as spectacular as Hale Bopp a few years back, a clear autumn evening would be the perfect opportunity to take the kids out on a new adventure and introduce them to astronomy...
With the upcoming release of ASCOM Plaform 5.0, .net developers will have a whole new arsenal of tools at their disposal. The project templates for drivers provide a great head start when embarking on development of a new driver. However, there is very...
Software-y-Ddraig Shareware Registration Services provides an off-the-shelf utility that enables .Net software developers to quickly and easily add shareware registration to their software. It is extremely simple to use (2 lines of code at its simplest...
An example of minor planet detection. This animation is comprised of three plates taken about 20 minutes apart, so a total of about an hour in elapsed real time. The minor planet (or asteroid) is the faint moving object in the lower left quadrant of the...
If you have Google Earth installed, you can double-click the attached file to see where I am.
Proposals concerning the evolution of the ASCOM Initiative into the .NET era....
TiGra Networks has worked with Space Exploration Limited, based in Co. Roscommon, Ireland on setting up two automated observatories that will be used in the search for 'Planet X'....
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