Astronomy

150 Capital city quizzes, 120 Chemistry and Periodic Table quizzes, 20 Astronomy picture-quizzes and 10 questions about the speed of light for middle and high school students.

StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium and star mapping program today. It illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth. The star positions can be viewed and presented as images of semi spherical whole sky or any of...

A comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking package. It allows you to view: An earth map, showing day and night regions, location of the Moon and current phase, and position of a selected earth satellite. Panel showing positions of planets and a selected asteroid or comet, both...


Platforms: Windows

Astro::Constants is a Perl module that contains physical constants for use in Astronomy. SYNOPSIS use Astro::Constants::CGS qw(:long); print "The Schwarzschild radius of the sun is ", 2 * GRAVITATIONAL * SOLAR_MASS / LIGHT_SPEED ** 2, " centimetresn"; or use Astro::Constants::MKS...


Platforms: *nix

Simulation of coded aperture imaging systems used in gamma astronomy. This is the subject of my preparatory class personal work (TIPE in french). For more information about coded aperture imaging systems, see this site.


Platforms: Mac

Equinox is a universal application that will run on both PPC and Intel Macintosh computers. This powerful planetarium program has many features for both the beginner and advanced astronomer. It has filters for organizing deep sky objects, many controls to adjust the sky display and a window that...


Platforms: Mac

Screensaver based upon the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site (Robert Nemiroff [MTU] & Jerry Bonnell [USRA]).


Platforms: Mac

Equinox Image is a universal application to control Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) CCD cameras (grey scale and color) and Optec or RoboFocus focusers. This program also controls SBIG filter wheels, AO-7/L and remote guide heads. Auto focus, FWHM, RMS error and color enhancement...


Platforms: Mac

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope-bringing together imagery from the world's best ground- and space-based telescopes for the exploration of the universe. WWT blends terabytes of images,...


Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, 7

Setup your own election for Town Mayor, Class President, Cheerleader, PTA Chairperson, Tribal Council, Church Council Candidates, Astronomy Club Leader, or any kind of election you like. Begin by signing up for your free e-mail election account and establishing a login name and password. Next, go...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Linux Console, Linux Gnome, Linux GPL, Linux Open Source

A complete astronomy experience is in store -- with real-time sky, comprehensive reports, arcsecond accuracy, and exciting features such as animation and live orbital tracking. Adastra's powerful search encompasses planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and a multitude of stars, making exploration of...


Platforms: Windows

A complete and accessible astronomy experience is in store -- with real-time sky, comprehensive reports, arcsecond accuracy, and exciting features such as animation and live tracking. Adastra's powerful search encompasses planets, comets, asteroids, DSOs, and a multitude of stars, making...


Platforms: Windows

General purpose scientific framework and its astronomy samples


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A set of cross-platform tools for connecting via TCP/IP to the VOEvent transient astronomy alert network. Tools include a receiver/broker, a sender/publishing tool, and a VOEvent message checker. Runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.


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

About AutoAPOD A great new system extension that allows your Mac OS X computer to instantly download a great Astronomy picture daily. Explore the beauty of the cosmos from the comfort of your own home or office. What is AutoAPOD? APOD stands for Astronomy Picture Of the Day. It is a web site...


Platforms: Mac

This is a trivia game that tests your knowledge about astronomy. You are guaranteed to learn something new! While answering questions about astronomy you can enjoy beautiful pictures from outer space. Play this astronomy quiz and m


Platforms: Mac

Saturn Lite is an astronomy app that has over 200 images and graphics of the planet Saturn, its extensive ring system, and the 7 major moons in its system, which are Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Iapetus. There is extensive and detaile


Platforms: Mac

A Lambert-orbital boundary value problem can be stated as"Find the orbit/trajectory of a spacecraft that flies from position [r1] to [r2], taking a time [tf] and making [m] complete orbits before arriving at [r2]. "The solution to each Lambert-problem is NOT unique; one can travel to [r2] via the...


Platforms: Matlab

FILLFIGURE resets the position of an axes, and either its XLim or its YLlim, so that the axes completely fills its parent figure. After calling FILLFIGURE, you can make use of the entire figure window while zooming and panning an image.The image used in the screen shot and first example,...


Platforms: Matlab