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155 results for "Tour"

155 results for "Tour"

What is a tour?

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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...

Creating WWT Tours

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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...

Create WWT Tours

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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...

Student Tours

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Educators at both the high school and undergraduate level use WorldWide Telescope for students to create tours to show and share their knowledge of astronomy.

WWT Educators Tour

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A Tour introducing ways you can use WWT in both formal and informal educational settings. Lisa walks you through many of the key features in the WWT interface. This tour gives an overview of these WWT features: how to pause while viewing a tour, explore...

Student-Created Tours

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These are tours made by the students of Prof. Stella Offner at UMass Amherst for her Astronomy 101 course. They cover a wide range of introductory topics in astronomy.

Intro to Tour Making

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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

How do you make a tour?

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To create a tour, you first go to "Guided Tours" and click on the sub-menu (the little rectangle that appears at the bottom of the tab) and click "Create A New Tour." Then, enter a title and other information for your tour (which you can edit later). Then...

Tour Authoring in the webclient

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What’s New in the American Astronomical Society WorldWide Telescope (September 2016) Most of the work under the AAS has been to migrate the advanced visualization functionality and tour authoring capability of the Windows Desktop Client to the Web Client...

Introduction to Tour Making in WWT

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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

New Horizons Tour - Mission to Pluto

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New Horizons - A Pluto tour by Albert L. a 11th grade student from Cambridge, MA New Horizons Mission in WorldWide Telescope Credits A tour by Albert L. a 11th grade student from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge, MA

LITU Tour Collection

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Right click to download the tour files (.wtt) for to be played in the Windows version of WWT: