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Planet Finder |
http://www.lightandmatter.com/[..]2planet.shtml |
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Planet Finder is an applet that shows a map of the whole sky, indicating the positions of the sun, moon, stars, and planets. You can choose any date and time, and any location on the earth from which to view the sky.
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PyNOVAS |
http://pynovas.sourceforge.net/ |
2397x |
PyNOVAS allows you to calculate the position and movement of the sun, moon, planets, and stars with great precision using Python.
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PyEphem |
http://rhodesmill.org/[..]/pyephem.html |
1993x |
PyEphem provides scientific-grade astronomical computations for the Python programming language. Given an arbitrary date and location on Earth, it can compute the positions of the sun, moon, and planets as well as any asteroids, comets, or earth satellites whose orbital elements the user can provide.
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spiderd |
http://nova.sourceforge.net/ |
2482x |
spiderd is a multi-threading telescope motion control daemon within the Nova project.
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INDI |
http://indi.sourceforge.net/ |
2440x |
INDI is an instrument-neutral distributed interface control protocol that aims to provide backend driver support and automation for a wide range of astronomical devices (telescopes, focusers, CCDs, etc.).
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SaVi |
http://savi.sourceforge.net/ |
2312x |
SaVi is satellite visualization software that lets you create, run, examine, and modify satellite orbits in two and three dimensions. Simulations of Iridium, Teledesic, Globalstar, GPS, and other satellite constellations are included.
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Sky Charts |
http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/ |
4110x |
This program enables you to draw sky charts, making use of the data
in 16 catalogs of stars and nebulae. In addition the position of planets, asteroids and comets are shown.
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Stellarium |
http://stellarium.free.fr/ |
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Stellarium is a free software available for Windows, Linux/Unix and MacOSX. It renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
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StarPlot |
http://starplot.org/ |
2457x |
StarPlot is a GTK-based program, written in C++,which can be used interactively to viewthree-dimensional perspective charts of stars.
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PP3 |
http://pp3.sourceforge.net |
2576x |
PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution-independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used, for example, as illustrations in books or on Web pages. It is possible to change many parameters, and arbitrary text can be placed on the maps. The output formats are EPS or PDF.
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Xplns |
http://www.astroarts.com/[..]ns/index.html |
3986x |
Xplns reproduces real starry sky on your display of X Window System. It calculates the position of many celestial objects (stars, galaxies, nebulae, constellations, planets, comets, etc.) very accurately. Distribution is in binary code only, because it includes a lot of commercial source code produced by AstroArts Inc. Requires also Star data, Orbital elements and Image data.
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XEphem |
http://www.ClearSkyInstitute.com/xephem |
3313x |
XEphem is a free interactive astronomy program for UNIX systems with X & Motif.
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Ksetiwatch |
http://ksetiwatch.sf.net/ |
13567x |
Ksetiwatch is a monitoring tool for the SETI@home distributed computing project.
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Skylendar |
http://skylendar.kde.org/ |
3867x |
Astrology software for Linux/KDE3.
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Planets 3D |
http://planets3d.sourceforge.net/ |
18219x |
A graphical tool for the simulation of the solar system, based on gravity power calculations.
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