Nasa Astronomy

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...

My3D Star Chart is an OpenSource Astronomy Tool (under the BSD License) for displaying Thirdparty Star Catalouges like the ESA Hipparcos or TYCHO1/2 Database. It has a PlugIn Interface and can be extended and customized.

AstroAviBrowser is a small tool for astronomy imaging capture/processing. With AstroAviBrowser, you may open a video file, select the good frames and save the new sequence in a new avi file. It also debayer your raw sequences.


Platforms: *nix

NASA Night Launch is a dark theme for Firefox inspired by the night launch of STS-116. This theme is for people who like it dark. If you're running a dark desktop then this is for you. So zip up your flight suit, make sure your harness is secure, and enjoy the ride. Customization: Pimp your...


Platforms: *nix

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...


Platforms: Windows

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

Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript is an award-winning open source project, as used by NASA, that facilitates the printing of all major barcode symbologies entirely within level 2 PostScript. Hence the process of generating a printed barcode representing a given input is performed entirely...


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

iS3 dials into NASA's web servers and uses their 'NASA Solar System Simulator' to return an image of any planet or moon as seen from any other planet (or some man made objects) at any given time along with some other options such as constellation lines and planet orbits.


Platforms: Mac

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


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

World Wind 3D Data Viewer is a program developed using NASA's World Wind Java Software Development Kit (SDK) that will enable you to view Australia's continental data sets. The viewer allows you to compare national data sets such as the radioelements, the gravity and magnetic anomalies, and...


Platforms: Windows

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is the worlds most sophisticatedX-ray telescope. Along with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, Chandra is one of NASA's 'Great Observatories'. Chandras unique sensitivity and resolving power have made possible significant advances in many...


Platforms: Mac

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

This is not an "entertaining" IQ test, it will never tell you that you're a genius if you actually aren't one. But don't be discouraged, it is OK to be normal. You will have 40 minutes to answer 20 untrivial questions. The questions are difficult, most of people won't answer more than 7...


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

The virtual lab is a NASA-funded project to provide simulated instrumentation. ITG has developed a Virtual Microscope (Virtual SEM and LM) for viewing high-resolution, multi-dimensional image datasets. More info and data: http://virtual.itg.uiuc.edu


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Matlab SRTM Library is designed to be an easy-to-use interface for importing and manipulating NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Model (DEM) dataset.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux