• Introduction to WWT
• 3D Solar System and Cosmos Overview
• Tour Making Basics...

This video demonstrates how to animate text, shapes, and images in WWT slides.

This video demonstrates:

• How to change the color and opacity of text, shapes, and images.
• Examples of effective use of color and opacity changes.

This video demonstrates: How to use the Sound Recorder within MSFT Windows to record narration audio files.

• How to add the narration tracks to slides within a Tour
• How to use a Master slide when an audio track spans multiple slides
• How to add a music track to a Tour, taking care not to infringe on copyright.

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This video demonstrates:

• How to paste your own images into slides
• How to add a hyperlink to your images

This video demonstrates:

• How to add and format Text to slides.
• How to add Shapes to slides, and how to resize and rotate them.
• How to add Images to slides, and how to resize and rotate them.

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This video demonstrates some tour-making basics:

• How to start making a tour
• How to turn off Constellation lines and overlays
• How to add slides
• How to search for WWT objects to include in slides
• How to set the starting and ending camera positions for slide

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"Tours" are interactive paths through the night sky, designed to tell a story or teach a particular astronomy concept.  They look like movies, but when viewed in WWT, you can pause the tour to explore regions of the sky that catch your interest, and you can click on hyperlinks throughout the tour to learn more about an object or phenomenon. You can view tours on the web client of WWT or in the full desktop version. You may also often come across many video versions of tours, as on the bottom of this page.

The videos in the menu to the left give instructions for different...

Jonathan Fay, Principal Software Architect for WWT, gives an overview of the user interface:

This video will help you learn how to:

• Navigate within WWT
• Use the finder scope to learn more
• Use the menu tabs to search for objects of interest, access guided tours, and customize your experience

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This video is designed to give science teachers and astronomy educators an overview of WWT's 3D model of the solar system and cosmos.  We demonstrate how WWT can help students understand and visualize:

• night and day
• seasons
• Moon phases
• parallax
• distances to constellations
• our Milky Way galaxy
• clumpy structure in our cosmos

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Overview Video

To learn more about the WWT user interface, watch this overview talk by WWT Principal Architect, Jonathan Fay.

WorldWide Telescope UI Overview

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WWT only runs on a Windows Operating System. You can still run WWT on a Mac computer, but you'll have to somehow get Windows to run on your machine. There are a couple of ways to do this. You can Bootcamp your Mac or get a virtual computer program like VMWare Fusion or Parallels. On this page, we'll give you some instructions, tips, tricks, and advice for these methods.

Before you do anything, PLEASE BACKUP YOUR COMPUTER.  We've never run into a problem with this process, but we'd hate to have something happen to your data....