Observatory

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

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

You own four observatories and the idea is to keep up the funding on each observatory while taking pictures of stars to get points. Your final score is the product of the four observatories' scores times a multiplier based upon the speed of the game you play. Platforms: Windows

GeoMapApp is an earth science exploration and visualization application that is continually being expanded as part of the Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. The application provides direct access to the Global Multi-Resolution... Platforms: Windows

An efficient algorithm for identification of strong polarity-inversion line (SPIL) on Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) magnetograms.Detailed description will appear in the paper: Volobuev, D.M. StrongPolarity-Inversion Line Preceding X-class Flare, Solar... Platforms: Matlab

JHelioviewer is visualization software for solar image data based on the JPEG 2000 compression standard. JPEG 2000 offers many useful new features and has the potential to revolutionize the way high-resolution image data are disseminated and analyzed. The JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP)... Platforms: Mac

Radio telescopes are used to examine some of the most active astronomical objects in the universe. Radio telescopes gather radio waves from radio galaxies, quasars, novas, supernovas, pulsars, planets, and emission nebulars. Arrays of telescopes act as an interferometer and can expand the... Platforms: Mac

RTS2 is project to create an open source environment for control of a fully autonomous observatory. It is running about dozen fully autonomous observatories. Its modular design allow easily addition of new devices (to already huge supported HW list). Features . plug&play device support .... Platforms: *nix

You can use SincroTray for correction your PC clock through Internet.The right time is gotten from Time Service Department of U.S. Naval Observatory. It is official Source of Time for the Department of Defense and the Standard of Time for the United States.SincroTray shows time with classic round...

The Earth Centered Universe (ECU) Pro V4.0 is todays essential planetarium and telescope control program. Designed for the demanding requirements of an observing amateur astronomer and professionals alike. It has pinpoint accuracy as a planetarium program, and coupled with an autoguided... Platforms: Windows

Scisoft is a project within the European Southern Observatory to provide a uniform collection of astronomical software packages (eg, Pyraf, IRAF, STSDAS, ESO-MIDAS). Scisoft for Mac OS X is modeled after the ESO Scisoft project but is not an official Scisoft release and is neither associated with... Platforms: Mac

HKWeather is a widget that fetches Hong Kong local weather through local observatory. The Temperature, forecast and weather warning is considerably more accurate than the Weather widget provided by Apple. Version 1.6 supports displaying local weather warnings (e.g. Typhoon,... Platforms: Mac

NASA Widget is a Dashboard widget that streams the latest NASA news to your desktop. Choose your NASA RSS feed on the backside S select from Breaking news, Flight news, Science@NASA, Scientific and Technical Information News, NASA Space Research News and NASA Earth Observatory. Platforms: Mac

AstroAirmass is designed to make airmass plots easy. Resolve an object name through SIMBAD or put coordinates, choose an observatory and a date, and go! If you have the Python module DbigglesE installed, you can save the plot and open it with Preview. Drop me a mail to add your plotting script... Platforms: Mac

JIKANKEI is a software of Art Project. The word JIKANKEI is the Time System in Japanese. JIKANKEI does not express scientifically accurate data. It is only an Art work. Linger in the morning brightness, in the afternoon glow, and enjoy the gradually changing seasons on this globe. JIKANKEI is... Platforms: Mac

Solar Viewer... See the latest images of the sun! The Solar Viewer widget allows you to see near-realtime images of the sun on your computer desktop. These amazing images come from NASA/ESAls SOHO missions, NASA TRACE satellite, and the Big Bear Observatory. More information as well as links to... Platforms: Mac

LGPSTime will automatically set your PC clock to the time from the GPS receiver connected to the computer. GPS gets its time from GPS satellites, which are controlled and maintained by the US Naval Observatory. Using time from a GPS, LGPSTime will keep your computer referenced to an atomic... Platforms: Windows

NightAssistant is an application that can create a list of double stars, variable stars, galaxies, clusters and nebulae based on the input criteria. With the help of this list, you can click on an object and make a finder chart for it, or enter a new observation. The program acts very much like... Platforms: Windows

The swiss-army knife for every astronomers, pro or amator. It is intended to provide all necessary informations about stars, observatories, times, telescopes, observing runs, night logs... to make your observations the most efficient, and concentrate on the most important: the few photons you get... Platforms: Mac

Face the new millenium with this powerful, fifth generation astrology program. StarScopes is sophisticated enough for professional astrologers and yet simple enough for novices to enjoy. This astrology software enables you to indulge your curiosities about the planets and stars, providing... Platforms: Windows