Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it's the technology that made Robert Scoble cry). It does have a browser based mode and so is "Mac" friendly.

Click here to go right to WWT browser access from your MAC.

The Kepler FOV has been added to the WWT (using the constellation figure tool). This is how it looks in the CLIENT version:

This is how it looks in the BROWSER version:

The exact position of all 3,360 sectors have been calculated and carefully added to the WWT, so the FOV moves across the sky in the WWT just as any stars do as the earth rotates. 

NASA has made available several datasets in a format called Virtual Observatory (VO) Cone Search.

• Kepler Input Catalog (14M stars)
• Kepler Target Catalog (100,000 stars)
• Kepler Exoplanet Catalog (5 as at April 2010)

You can see below how you are able to zoom right into even a single sector and see the stars there.  The plan is to allocate these 3,360 sectors to school teams.

To remind you there are  just 150,000 "targets" stars in the KTC (Kepler Target Catalog). So in this one sector below (this is just 1 of 3,360 sectors) there are approximately 4,000 KIC stars (14M/3,360)  of which on average  just 44 are in the KTC.

Click here to see more about the World Wide Telescope.