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Home / Science / Astronomy / Software / Toolkits and Observing Utilities
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- AstroNotes - [commercial - Windows] A tool for recording observations and planning future observing sessions. It allows tracking of progress on common amateur observing programs (Messier, Herschel, etc).
www.astronotes.com
- AstroPy - [open source - multiplatform] Development and integration of tools and numerical algorithms into the Python scripting language.
lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/~bridgman/AstroPy
- C88 - an informational tool for amateur astronomers - 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.
www.alcyone.de/c88/english/index.htm
- Calendar software - [open source - mainly Windows] Visual Basic routines that create sundials and calendars, see the dates and names of the year's moons, calculate Easter, and much more.
www.blibbleblobble.co.uk/Downloads/Calendar/index.htm
- Dark Skies - [freeware - Windows] Allows you to determine which nights of the year (or month) will be totally dark (i.e. moon is not in the sky). This application will be of primary use to amateur astronomers.
pages.sprint.ca/todd/index.html
- Deepsky 99 - Software for Observers - [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.
www.deepsky2000.com
- Epoch_2000 Temporal Epoch Calculator - 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.
www.jqjacobs.net/astro/epoch_2000.html
- Eyepiece - [freeware - DOS] Helps determine the appropriate eyepiece for specific sky objects (double stars, nebulae, and galaxies), assists in selecting nebular filters, and performs prime-focus astrophotography calculations. Many images are included. Mouse, VGA graphics, 386 and above CPU required.
sj.znet.com/~steve_w
- GeoAstro Applet Collection - [commercial & freeware - multiplatform] Interactive Java applets display the position, daily and annual path of the sun and the moon, for any time and location.
www.jgiesen.de/GeoAstro/GeoAstro.htm
- JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides - [commercial - multiplatform] This CD contains three Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides along with a toolbox of FORTRAN subroutines that allow the user to obtain the coordinates of the Sun, Moon, and nine major planets.
www.willbell.com/software/jpl.htm
- LunarPhase - [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A comprehensive tool for displaying a variety of information on the Moon and aspects of its behaviour.
indigo.ie/~gnugent/LunarPhase
- LX200 remote control software - [Commercial, free demo, Win95/98] Get most features from your LX200 telescope keypad hand controller directly on your PC.
www.ccdsoft.com/lxctrldoc.html
- Moon Tool - [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.
www.fourmilab.ch/moontoolw
- Moonclock - [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, radius, etc.
balder.prohosting.com/stouch/MOONCLOCK.html
- Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac - [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).
www.willbell.com/almanacs/almanac_mica.htm
- My Astronomy Stuff - [open source - multiplatform] Java code that performs a variety of astronomical functions.
homepage.mac.com/markhamilton1/astronomy/mal.html
- NGCView - [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] Astronomical Observation Suite - Astronomical observation and logging software.
www.rainman-soft.com
- Nianhua Scholar Chinese Calendar Converter - [commercial, demo available - Windows] Includes Julian Day number, Julian and Gregorian calendar date, and day of year, day of week, Chinese lunar-solar calendar year month day hour, Dynasty Emperor Personal, Reign and Temple names and year.
www.armourtech.com/~rwishlaw/nianhua
- PyEphem - [open source - multiplatform] A module for performing astronomical computations using the Python scripting language.
www.rhodesmill.org/pyephem
- SkySight - [commercial, Win/Mac] CCD camera control and image processing, includes SkyChart III.
www.southernstars.com/skysight/index.html
- Starchart - Star mapping software - [opensource - POSIX] There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.
starchart.sourceforge.net
- StarTrak home page - Freeware for handheld computers to help you find and track objects of the night sky.
www.startrak.co.uk
- STD Aurora Monitor Software - [commercial - Win95/98/NT/2000] Advanced auroral activity monitoring software.
solar.spacew.com/aurora
- The Sun API - [commercial & freeware - Windows] A library of functions for calculating key solar parameters for solar design including sundials.
www.sunlitdesign.com/products/thesunapi
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