Digital Universe Atlas

Digital Universe Guide

• Contents
• Overview
  • What is the DU?
  • Getting Help
  • Digital Universe License
  • Acknowledgments
• Getting Started
  • Installing
  • Launching the Milky Way
  • Learning to Fly Partiview
  • Partiview's User Interface
  • Digital Universe Files
• Milky Way Atlas
  • Overview
  • Tutorial
  • Data Groups
  • Optimizing
• Extragalactic Atlas
  • Overview & Primer
  • Tutorial
  • Data Groups
  • Optimizing
• Appendix
  • Light-Travel Time
  • Parallax and Distance
  • Redshift and Distance
  • Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Constants and Units
• Index

• Home
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• Getting Started

Getting Started

If you're new to the Digital Universe, you will want to read this chapter for an introduction to the Digital Universe data and Partiview, the software used to explore the Atlas.

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Subsections

• Installing the Digital Universe
• Launching the Milky Way Atlas
• Learning to Fly Partiview
• Partiview's User Interface
• Digital Universe Files

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