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[commercial & freeware - multiplatform] Interactive Java applets display the position, daily and annual path of the sun and the moon, for any time and location.
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J. G s GeoAstro Applet Collection Applets for detailed solar and lunar data and observe the daily and annual path of the sun and moon for any location. Featured by Science Magazine Article in Sky Telescope June 2001) Griffith Observatory Star Award How to get the...[shareware - Win95/98/NT] Deepsky 99 solves an important need for amateur and professional observers. The software allows the user to plan a productive observing session and record what was observed quickly and easily.
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Deepsky Astronomy Observational Software Just wanted to send a quick word of praise for your amazing Deepsky software. It's one of those packages that just opens up into new surprises every time I run it. It shows in every corner the attention and care...[commercial - Win95/98/NT/2000] Advanced auroral activity monitoring software.
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STD Aurora Monitor Software Homepage Monitor your local weather (cloud) conditions and solar activity as well All in real-time NEW Read the Sky Telescope Magazine Review of the old Version 2.0 STD Aurora Monitor Software Download the Trial Version Now Available on CD-ROM ORDER FORM...[open source - multiplatform] A module for performing astronomical computations using the Python scripting language.
http://www.rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] Astronomical Observation Suite - Astronomical observation and logging software.
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NGCView Astronomical Observing Suite Main Page (Frames) This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them....[commercial, Win/Mac] CCD camera control and image processing, includes SkyChart III.
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Southern Stars Systems SkySight Sorry, your browser doesn't support frames. Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0 are required to view this web site. Thanks for your patience....Windows program which creates sundials and calendars, see the dates and names of the year's moons, and calculate Easter.
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BlibbleBlobble.co.uk Downloads Universal Calendar Calendar program is a set of screens, each designed to display a different aspect of the calendar Moon phases Easter dates Sunrise times Sundial calculations Lunar calendars Variable holidays Download (2Mb zip file, Windows installer and full GPL source-code) Source...[commercial - DOS, Macintosh] A software system that provides high-precision astronomical data in tabular form for a wide variety of objects; it calculates much of the information tabulated in the benchmark annual publication, The Astronomical Almanac, but it goes beyond traditional almanacs by enabling you to calculate data for specified locations at specified times within a fifteen year interval (1990-2005).
http://www.willbell.com/almanacs/almanac_mica.htm
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A comprehensive tool for displaying a variety of information on the Moon and aspects of its behaviour.
http://indigo.ie/~gnugent/LunarPhase
[opensource - POSIX] There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.
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Starchart Star mapping software There are things in the sky.This program draws maps of things in the sky. Starchart What is starchart Philosophy Documentation Sample output Download source code Browse the CVS tree This project page at Sourceforge Please take the surveys! Hosting provided...[Windows] A desktop application that displays the times of the various phases of the moon and a picture of the current phase of the moon.
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Moontool for Windows Windows application which calculates the phase of the Moon at either the current time or at any user-specified time and displays a picture of the Moon at the correct phase, either as a system tray icon or in an open...[commercial & freeware - Windows] A library of functions for calculating key solar parameters for solar design including sundials.
http://www.sunlitdesign.com/products/thesunapi
[shareware - MacOS] Real-time graphical representation of the lunar visual aspect for any time/date/location. Elongation, PA bright limb, RA, DEC, percent illuminated, alt/az, heliocentric lat/long, distance, and radius.
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sofTouch APpLications MOONCLOCK 2.2.0 K produces a continually updating, real-time graphical representation on the visual aspect of the moon. The lunar aspect may be computed geocentrically, or topocentrically, for the current epoch, or for any time and date. The dynamic MOONCLOCK graphic depicts how...[commercial - Windows] A tool for recording observations and planning future observing sessions. Allows tracking of progress on common amateur observing programs (Messier, Herschel).
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Winsave Winsave.com...C88 provides detailed informations about the celestial sphere objects, visible with naked eyes and for the use of an eyepiece of a modest amateur telescope to observe deep sky objects.
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C88 an informational tool for amateur astronomers Ihr Browser unterstützt keine Frames!...Excel spreadsheet calculates temporal variation in astronomic constants, obliquity of the ecliptic, and illumination angles at any specified latitude. You need only input a date or the latitude.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/astro/epoch_2000.html
Freeware for handheld computers to help find and track objects of the night sky.
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StarTrak home page Welcome to the homepage of StarTrak, a freeware program for amateur astronomers. StarTrak runs on the Psion 3, 3a, 3c and 3mx range of handheld computers. Its purpose is to help you find and track the positions of planets, stars,...This page contains Linux Kernel/Library Module for SBIG CCD Cameras
http://www.geocities.com/jan_soldan
[freeware - Linux] Command-line program to automate reduction of variable star CCD images.
http://astro.corlan.net/avsomat
[open source - multiplatform] Development and integration of tools and numerical algorithms into the Python scripting language.
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The Astronomical Python Home Page Astronomers interested development of an interactive data analysis environment in Python. Amateur astronomers interested in astronomical analysis tools that can run on computer systems within their budget. Students and teachers interested in a free and easy-to-use programming language for teaching....