VirtualSky.org
Title
Welcome to the Virtual Sky!
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- The Virtual Sky project (http://virtualsky.org) provides stunning, seamless images of the night sky; not just an album of popular places, but the entire northern sky at high resolution. Virtual Sky has ingested the complete DPOSS survey (Digital Palomar Observatory Sky Survey), with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface that anyone can use. Users can zoom out so the entire sky is on the screen, or zoom in, to a maximum resolution of 1.4 seconds per pixel, a magnification of 2000. Another theme is the Hubble Deep Field, an further magnification of 32. There is also a gallery of interesting places, and a blog (bulletin board) where users can record comments. Virtual Sky is a collaboration between the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research (http://www.cacr.caltech.edu), Johns Hopkins University (http://www.jhu.edu/), the Sloan Sky Survey (http://www.sdss.org/), and Microsoft Research (http://research.microsoft.com/). The image storage and display is based on the popular Terraserver (http://terraserver.microsoft.com). We are now exploring ways to integrate the DPOSS and SDSS data into a unified, distributed dataset between two sites. This is an essential first step in building a National Virtual Observatory.
Languages
English
Address
- 1614 Las Lunas
- Pasadena CA 91106 US
