Nasa Astronomy

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...

The goal of the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) Project is to explore the design, implementation, and uses of parallel I/O. PVFS serves as both a platform for parallel I/O research as well as a production file system for the cluster computing community. PVFS is currently targeted at clusters...

Starry Night Widget... Whether at home or at work, keep Starry Night astronomy software at your fingertips.Faster than a shooting star, the Starry Night Widget will bring the sky for any location to your Macintosh OS X Dashboard in an instant.Set your location by zip/postal code or by latitude...


Platforms: Mac

Clear Sky Clock is a Dashboard widget that displays the current Clear Sky Clock for your location. You can enter your site name and download time as preferences. The Clear Sky Clock is copyright 2005 A. Danko, and is used to predict astronomical viewing conditions.


Platforms: Mac

APOD Viewer is a Dashboard widget for displaying the oAstronomy Picture of the Dayo from NASAls web page. Each day a new image is presented along with a description by a professional astronomer. In addition to showing the current image oAPOD Viewero also lets you see the accompanying explanation...


Platforms: Mac

Marble is an early beta preview of the Marble Widget application which is targeted for KDE 4. You need to install both packages: "marble" and "marble-data" to run Marble. Marble is a generic geographical map widget that is meant to be used by KDE4 applications. It shows the earth as a sphere...


Platforms: *nix

WMS Javascript Library is an object-oriented JavaScript library for creating dynamic Web-based maps from otherwise static WMS (Web Map Service) images by adding pan/zoom functionality with Google Maps-like draggability. Custom clickable overlays can be added to create a useful GIS. WMS...


Platforms: *nix

This is a simple and fun widget to learn about the features of the lunar surface that are visible from Earth. The lunar atlas is an orthographic render created from data taken by the Lunar Orbiter Missions (NASA) and provided by the USGS Astrogeology Research Program. Right-click on the atlas to...


Platforms: Mac

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

Everyone at least once has dreamt of being an astronaut. Only a few have realized this dream, but at least now you can recreate it thanks to this spectacular photo taken directly in space. It is a closeup of a NASA astronaut completing his mission with all the equipement needed.This astronaut...


Platforms: Windows

A free IDL (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler (ie. runs IDL programs). IDL is a registered trademark of Research Systems Inc. Full syntax compatibility with IDL 6.0 ALL IDL language elements are supported, including: - Objects, - Pointers, - Structs, - Arrays, -...


Platforms: *nix

SwapSwapVM is an AppleScript application made with Smile written to change thetarget volume (disk; partition) for the Virtual Memory swapfiles in OS X10.2.x Jaguar. It has been vigorously tested on various configurations underOS X 10.2.0 through 10.2.6. SwapSwapVM requires a default installation...


Platforms: Mac

McIDAS-Lite is a freely available demo for the full McIDAS software (More info available at http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mug/)This demo will connect to a variety of free online data sources for satellite data and display the images in a viewing window. Images can be looped, analyzed, and graphics...


Platforms: Mac

Skywatching Widget... The Skywatching Center is your astronomical best buddy! It points out whatNs most captivating in the sky each night, or the next morning before dawn. Times and directions are indicated. Click the charts or title for more information. Designed for all ages. Suitable for...


Platforms: Mac

Sometime in the early 90s a game existed on the Macintosh called Diamonds which was something like a cross between a puzzle and action game. The game play required for the player to use the ball on the screen to hit bricks and destroy them. However, rather than hitting the ball with a paddle...


Platforms: *nix

Catch the Macs is a classic arcade shooter game. Shoot down Wintel machines to save the Macs. For OS 8 or 9 only (does not work in classic mode)


Platforms: Mac

Kaboot Linux Operating system aims to provide an operating system which you can take anywhere and has all your favourite programs on. Kaboot operating system is avaliable as a Live CD or Live USB you can take with you anywhere. A number of different versions are avaliable, two optimised for...


Platforms: *nix

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

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

AspectES is an implementation of Aspect-Oriented Programming in JavaScript 1.5, as standardized by EcmaScript Specification 262. AspectES project contains core classes that enable software engineers to gracefully develop JavaScript applications that have clear, well-documented designs that...


Platforms: *nix