Astronomy

Astronomy Calculators is a small, easy to use application, specially designed to offer users a collection of small and simple calculator utilities. The aim of these calculator is to help amateur astronomers with the mundane calculations for optics and telescopes, and for conversions. for...

300 Science Quizzes: 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.

MPj Astro is an easy to use planetarium type astronomy programme for Macintosh computers. It will display the positions of the stars, planets, comets, Sun and Moon for any location on earth from 2000 BC to the year 6000. Use MPj Astro to locate and identify objects in the sky, learn the...


Platforms: Mac

Solar System 3D Simulator is a FREE software application that generates a realistic solar system model and planets in 3 Dimension on the PC using advanced physics formulas. It can display the planets and their orbits, the sun and the moon. The nine planets including planet earth and their...


Platforms: Windows

Asynx Planetarium is a easy to use planetarium program and solar system simulator. It can display the night sky from any location on earth between the year 1760 and 9999 and covers over 10000 stars, the planets, all messier objects, all 88 constellations and the moon with phase. Fast animations:...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

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.


Platforms: Mac

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

random-nasa-wallpaper is a Nautilus script which downloads a random wallpaper from NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive directory and set it as desktop background. Synopsis: ./random-nasa-wallpaper.pl


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

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

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

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

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