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2 Copyright c○ 2000-2012 American Museum of Natural History. Hayden Planetarium American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024, USA We encourage all parts of this manual be reproduced or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise. This manual is subject to change without notice. Please see our website for the latest version of this manual. The Digital Universe Guide was typeset using L AT E X. All trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. See the section “Digital Universe License” for the terms and conditions of the use and distribution of the AMNH Digital Universe.
Contents Contents 3 List of Tables 5 1 Overview 6 1.1 What is the Digital Universe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3 Digital Universe License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.4 About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.5 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 Getting Started 10 2.1 Installing the Digital Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.2 Launching the Milky Way Atlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3 Learning to Fly Partiview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.4 Partiview’s User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.5 Digital Universe Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3 The Milky Way Atlas 24 3.1 Milky Way Atlas Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.2 Milky Way Atlas Tutorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 3.3 Milky Way Data Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 3.4 Optimizing the Milky Way Atlas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 4 The Extragalactic Atlas 145 4.1 Extragalactic Atlas Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 3
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Appendix D Electromagnetic Spectrum
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INDEX 221 center command, 50, 61 cl
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INDEX 223 Earth’s radio signals,
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INDEX 225 irregular galaxy, 147, 17
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INDEX 229 stellar distance uncertai
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