Telescope Celestron

Twenty color photos from space taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Images include galaxies, planets, stars, and more.

This is a simple program that displays a map of the north celestial pole, it can be configured to show the same view as your polar alignment telescope. PolarView's main purpose is for accurate polar alignment in the field. All good astronomers will know that the pole star 'Polaris' or the 'North...

ScopeDriver allows you to control a Meade Autostar or LX200 astronomical telescope with your PC or Mac. An advanced 'Find' feature helps you locate tens of thousands of sky objects by Common Name, Bayer/Flamsteed designation, Constellation, and much more. Other features include Observing Lists,...


Platforms: Mac

ScopeDriver allows you to control a Gemini, Meade Autostar or LX200 astronomical telescope with your Mac. An advanced 'Find' feature helps you locate tens of thousands of sky objects by Common Name, Bayer/Flamsteed designation, Constellation, and much more. Other features include Observing Lists,...


Platforms: Mac

Use any webcam to make time-lapse, motion-detect, meteor trail planetary or animation movies. Easy to use! Simply start HandyAvi then select the type of movie you want to make (Time-lapse, Motion-detect, meteor trail, Astronomy or Animation). Then use the control panel that comes up to set up...


Platforms: Windows

" Use the camera on your iPhone/iPod/iPad to see how it looks in night vision mode. See things that you did not think were possible in the night. What happens when the lights turn off, well find out and check in your back yard, outside or when ever it's dark. What ability do you have? You have...


Platforms: iPhone, iPod

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 Cocoa application dedicated to the processing of astronomical digital images taken through a telescope. It is a 'Universal binary' running natively on PowerPC and Intel Macintoshes. It is optimized for vectorized instructions sets (Altivec or SSE), multi-processor and multi-core machines. It...


Platforms: Mac

CometCube - software that used to analyze datacube(FIT format) obtained from radio telescope. This project is using IDL evironment and language.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Library of Java code to interact with the data-recording formats (RPFITS and PSRFITS) used at the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). It also provides tools for extracting metadata from the files for supply to Virtual Observatory instances.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A top-down space shooter in the legacy of Chromium BSU


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

GBTIDL provides offline data reduction for spectral line data from the GBT, a single dish radio telescope. Although the GBTIDL code is open source, running it requires you to have your own IDL license and base package.


Platforms: Mac, Linux

GIRAFFE Base Line Data Reduction Software is a set of python scripts and modulesand a C library to reduce FITS images produced by the Very Large Telescope (VLT)FLAMES instrument.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux

Skalli is a simple tool to estimate the IVS reference point of an azimuth-elevation type VLBI radio telescope.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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 AndromedaRed OpticRed WISE2 theme features a high resolution infrared space telescope image of our neighboring Andromeda galaxy coupled with easy to read high contrast white text on a dark background. It's a beautiful image of another galaxy that's also great for navigating through tabs and...


Platforms: Mac

Qastrocam-g2 is a fork from the great Qastrocam application written by F. Sicard and it adds some new features. Qastrocam-g2 is a capture program for linux that can handle any V4L device. It can handle the special feature of the vesta camera (VP-SC, VP-SC-NB, VP-SC-USB, ...) and has special...


Platforms: *nix, Linux Console

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

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

The Awesome Space Views Screen Saver shows 63 beautiful and stunning images of nebulae, galaxies, planets, moons, and the space shuttle. Educational descriptions accompany each image. Many of these stunning images were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Enjoy a HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE screen...