Astronomical Telescopes

AstronomicalAlgorithms is a FREE portable ANSI C implementation of some of the algorithms published in Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus (2nd edition, December 1998, Willmann-Bell ISBN 0943396638)

JAVA project represents the realization of modern astronomical algorithms related to the orbital movement of planets, satellites and small bodies in the solar system by solving Kepler's equation and additional astronomical and mathematical libraries

JStars is an astronomical ephemeris program written in java.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Lynkeos is an astronomical webcam image processing software for MacOS X.


Platforms: Mac

Java based astronomical logging software which stores it's data in a free and open XML based format (OpenAstronomyLog).


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A PHP module to help perform advanced astronomical computations, such as planetary positions like those published in the astronomical almanacs.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

SAADA transforms a set of heterogeneous astronomical data FITS files in a powerfull database deployed on the Web and including VO features. The database is located on your host and keeps under your full control. This job doesn't require to write cod


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Specview is a Java GUI_based application for 1-D spectral visualization and analysis of astronomical spectrograms generated by a variety of observatories and instruments. Note that we no longer provide file distributions of this software. You are encouraged to visit the specview web site...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

It is a cross-platform astronomical software, with plug-ins support.A object-oriented library for astronomy and a graphic interface. C++, graphical tools-kit is wxWindows.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

HRCalc is an astronomical calculator used to derive properties of stars given a star's luminosity and surface temperature. With these values, HRCalc can derive the radius of a star and display stellar size relationships using graphical models.


Platforms: Mac

Do you plot Earth-orbiting trajectories? Would you like to know how your orbit compares to the size of the Earth? If so, EARTH_SPHERE will help get you there.This function is a modification of the built-in MATLAB command SPHERE. Rather than producing a sphere with a radius of 1, the radius of the...


Platforms: Matlab

The purpose of this code is to compute the value of Chandrasekhar's H function (sometimes called Ambartsumian's or Busbridge's H function) used in many diffuse reflectance and atmospheric/stellar light scattering and emission calculations. The method for performing the calculation are used here...


Platforms: Matlab

Equinox Pro is a powerful planetarium program that has many features for both the beginner and advanced astronomer. It has filters for organizing deep sky objects with many controls to adjust the sky display, colors and fonts. There is a window that simulates a telescope's view. Equinox Pro can...


Platforms: Mac

The EJS Herschel's Star Gages Model illustrates William Herschel's methods of "star gages" by which he attempted to map out the shape of our galaxy in 1785. Herschel's star gages (sic) relied on two important assumptions: that Herschel's telescope (his "large 20 foot" with an 18.5 inch aperture)...


Platforms: Mac

Icarus Camera Control came about because I have a Nikon D80 that I want to connect to telescopes and control via my MacBook. Nikon sells software for camera control (Camera Control Pro) but it is expensive and getting more so, it is terribly slow, and is a horrible battery hog. It is completely...


Platforms: *nix

aipy is a Python package that collects together tools for radio astronomical interferometry. In addition to pure-python phasing, calibration, imaging, and deconvolution code, this package includes interfaces to MIRIAD (a Fortran interferometry package) and HEALPix (a package for representing...


Platforms: *nix

SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly configurable...


Platforms: *nix

GNOME Lunar Clock Applet displays the current phase of the Moon as an applet for the gnome panel. In the properties box you can choose between a real image Features Pointing with the mouse at the applet displays a tooltip letting you know whether or not the moon is currently above the...


Platforms: *nix

Talon is a a fully automated open-source solution for automated telescope and observatory control. Talon controls all aspects of robotic astronomical observations, including telescope control, dome control, image processing, scheduled operations, and envi


Platforms: *nix

Nova is a free Integrated Observational Environment for amatuer astronomers. It will combine ephemeris functionality with the capability to control telescopes and CCD cameras.


Platforms: *nix