Gaia 1.0.0 & WWT

[Sneakybrit]

Gaia Sky, 3D visualisation software for ESA's Gaia satellite and astronomy outreach

 

Came across this while trawling the net Gaia 1.0.0 Download Page 

 

Also this The World Wide Telescope Interactive Site.

 

Not sure if you already have them, here for the new members just in case.

 

 

[Tweedledee]

Thanks for those links.

 

Took ages to download Gaia and after launching it, it is still reporting "loading please wait" after 20 minutes.

 

WWT looks good, but it takes an eternity to load up, seems very difficult to navigate and will not show any sky after it has been minimized, until closed and reopened again.

 

Just struggling with these two on Windows 10.

[Sneakybrit]

9 hours ago, Tweedledee said:

Thanks for those links.

 

Took ages to download Gaia and after launching it, it is still reporting "loading please wait" after 20 minutes.

 

WWT looks good, but it takes an eternity to load up, seems very difficult to navigate and will not show any sky after it has been minimized, until closed and reopened again.

 

Just struggling with these two on Windows 10.

 

Yeah sorry should of mentioned that having a powerful PC helps.  Took my system a few mins to load up but was well worth it.  There are web based versions of them too. 

 

I run win 7, I find win 10 spys on you way to much.