Microsoft WorldWide Telescope for Windows

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope Gold for Windows

This software is in production use in some of the world’s premiere planetariums!

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a full dome planetarium that enables you to explore the universe, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space based telescopes in the world and combining it with 3D navigation. With WWT, you can experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting features in the sky. You can research and import your own data and visualize it, then create a tour to share with others.



-Navigate seamlessly through 3D spherical environments: the Sky, Planets and our Solar System

-Access to hundreds of terabytes of sky, earth and planet data

-View, create, and edit guided tours

-Experience the 3D Solar System view with moon orbits, asteroids, and more

-Access billions of objects in a web-based astronomical catalog

-Use touch controls for touch-screen navigation

-Travel 2,000 years forwards and backwards in time



System Requirements:

Version 5.1 Gold runs on Windows 7 or Windows 8, in either 32 or 64-bit mode, depending on your operating system. It also supports native DirectX 11, DirectX 10, and has some support for down-level DirectX 9 hardware running through the DirectX 11 API.



- Windows 7 or Windows 8 (older versions of Windows are not supported)

- Discrete graphics card with 512 MB VRAM, DirectX 10 or DirectX 11 compatibility, high-end GTX 480 class or better, and 1 GB VRAM recommended

- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 or 4.0; already included in most Windows systems

- Do not attempt to install WWT 5.1 Gold on Windows XP. It does not run there.