Telescope

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

Telescope Eye Goldfish Wallpaper is an interactive and smoothly desktop background which let you click of your mouse to guide Telescope Eye Goldfish fish in any given direction. Telescope Eye Goldfish is a very gracious and beautiful aquarium fish of the goldfish species. The telescope eye also... Platforms: Windows, Windows 7

The Hubble Space Telescope is a free screensaver that will delight all fans of the world outside our own. It is a selection of twenty of the best images obtained by the Hubble space telescope.The Hubble space telescope is continuously orbiting around the Earth, and is named after the astronomer... Platforms: Windows

In the fight to offer users great and useful programs for free (maybe so as not to lose sight of their rivals at Google), Microsoft have created WorldWide Telescope, which many have now called Google Sky (and it+s also known as Google Herat) from Bill Gates. In effect, this fantastic program... Platforms: Windows

The threeaxis project will provide support for controlling three axis telescope mounts. This includes documentation of pointing equations, a simulation of the mount's motion, and real-time control software. Platforms: *nix

Screensaver featuring 40 spectacular high resolution pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope from 2000-01. All pictures are the original press release pictures with the borders and text removed. These pictures feature stunning images of Nebulas, Galaxies, and Planets. Comes with a 10 day free... Platforms: Windows

Screensaver featuring 45 spectacular high resolution pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope from 1998-99. All pictures are the original press release pictures with the borders and text removed. These pictures feature stunning images of Nebulas, Galaxies, and Planets. Comes with a 10 day free... Platforms: Windows

Telescope Search is a useful supplement to your Web browser. This software allows you to query search engines in 6 categories: Web, Directory, Image, News, Research, and Freeware. Accepts natural language, keywords, or boolean. Your queries are converted into advanced boolean or simple... Platforms: Windows

Device Control Device is a platform independent remote telescope and device control program compatible with the INDI standard (see http://indi.sourceforge.net/). This program is a client (a user interface) and provides functions to control devices connected to a remote system that is running an... Platforms: *nix

The Telescope Basecamp Widget is a free Mac OS Dashboard Widget for quick access to projects managed with 37signals' Basecamp web-based project management application. It is a useful Widget for people managing projects with Basecamp. Platforms: Mac

Use this widget to embed a new, stunning Hubble Space Telescope image each day of the year. The image changes daily. You can choose to include information about the image within the widget as well. Platforms: PHP

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: *nix

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... 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

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