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Introduction to WWT 3D Solar System and Cosmos Overview Tour Making Basics Text, Shapes, and Images Images and Hyperlinks Color and Opacity Narration and Music Effective Use of Animation How to Animate Objects in WWT Also See our FAQs page.

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...

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.

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

"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...

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...

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...