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- Digital_Universe_Atlas abstract "Digital Universe Atlas or Digital Universe is a free open source software planetarium application, available under the terms of the Illinois Open Source License, and running on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X (10.5 and above), AmigaOS 4, and IRIX.It is a standalone 4-dimensional space visualization application built on the programmable Partiview data visualization engine designed by Stuart Levy of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as an adjunct of the NCSA's Virtual Director virtual choreography project. The Virtual Universe Atlas project was launched by the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium with significant programming support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as well as Stuart Levy. The database draws on the National Virtual Observatory.A far more powerful visualization engine than any other existing freeware application, it is nevertheless still far less widely known among amateur astronomers.Along with Celestia and Orbiter, and unlike most other planetarium applications, Digital Universe shares the capacity to visualize space from points outside Earth. Building on work by Japan's RIKEN, its planet renderings and zoom visualizations can match or exceed Celestia and Orbiter. Unlike Celestia and Orbiter, highly accurate visualization from distances beyond the Milky Way galaxy is integral to the software and the datasets. This allows for unrivaled flexibility in plotting itineraries that reveal true distances and configurations of objects in the observable sky. It therefore improves understanding of the surroundings of the solar system in terms of observer-neutral celestial coordinate systems—systems that are neither geocentric nor heliocentric—such as the galactic coordinate system and supergalactic coordinate system. Here is how the project's developers characterize the purpose of the Digital Universe Atlas:[U]nlike a globe of the Earth, a celestial globe has little practical use today. No one believes anymore, as scholars did in the Middle Ages, that the stars are lights on a uniformly distant sphere. Tracing a path from star to star on such a surface, as if it were the outline of a constellation, reveals next to nothing about the shifting perspective that a true stellar voyager might experience, or what our Sun might look like from another star. No flat map, no globe painted with stars, can accurately render the true three-dimensional spatial relations among the objects scattered across the sky.The Digital Universe Atlas has spun off a commercial-grade planetarium platform from SCISS called Uniview that was featured in the White House star party on October 7, 2009. The Atlas database and Partiview interface is compatible with professional planetarium software such as Evans & Sutherland's Digistar and Sky-Skan's DigitalSky 2.".
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- Digital_Universe_Atlas wikiPageWikiLinkText "Digital Universe Atlas".
- Digital_Universe_Atlas wikiPageWikiLinkText "Digital Universe".
- Digital_Universe_Atlas author "Brian Abbott, Carter Emmart, Steven Marx, Ryan Wyatt".
- Digital_Universe_Atlas caption "Screenshot of Digital Universe".
- Digital_Universe_Atlas developer "American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, National Aeronautics and Space Administration".
- Digital_Universe_Atlas genre Educational_software.
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- Digital_Universe_Atlas name "Digital Universe Atlas".
- Digital_Universe_Atlas operatingSystem AmigaOS_4.
- Digital_Universe_Atlas operatingSystem IRIX.