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Octahedron-Based Projections as Intermediate Representations for Computer Imaging: TOAST, TEA and More
Thomas McGlynn, Jonathan Fay, Curtis Wong +1
This paper defines and discusses a set of rectangular all-sky projections which have no singular points, notably the Tesselated Octahedral Adaptive Spherical Transformation (or TOA…
AAS WorldWide Telescope: Seamless, Cross-Platform Data Visualization Engine for Astronomy Research, Education, and Democratizing Data
Philip Rosenfield, Jonathan Fay, Ronald K Gilchrist +5
The American Astronomical Society's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) project enables terabytes of astronomical images, data, and stories to be viewed and shared among researchers, exhibit…
Learning from FITS: Limitations in use in modern astronomical research
Brian Thomas, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou +35
The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard has been a great boon to astronomy, allowing observatories, scientists and the public to exchange astronomical information easil…
WorldWide Telescope in Research and Education
Alyssa Goodman, Jonathan Fay, August Muench +3
The WorldWide Telescope computer program, released to researchers and the public as a free resource in 2008 by Microsoft Research, has changed the way the ever-growing Universe of…
IVOA Recommendation: SAMP - Simple Application Messaging Protocol Version 1.3
M. Taylor, T. Boch, M. Fitzpatrick +4
SAMP is a messaging protocol that enables astronomy software tools to interoperate and communicate. IVOA members have recognised that building a monolithic tool that attempts to fu…
Affordable Digital Planetariums with WorldWide Telescope
Philip Rosenfield, Andrew Connolly, Jonathan Fay +3
Digital planetariums can provide a broader range of educational experiences than the more classical planetariums that use star-balls. This is because of their ability to project im…