Toolkits and Observing Utilities
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» AstroPy 
[open source - multiplatform] Development and integration of tools and numerical algorithms into the Python scripting language. » Automated Variable Star Observing
[freeware - Linux] Command-line program to automate reduction of variable star CCD images. » C88 - an informational tool for amateur astronomers
C88 provides detailed information 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. » Calendar software
Windows program which creates sundials and calendars, see the dates and names of the year's moons, and calculate Easter. » 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. » 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. » 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. » 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. » LunarPhase
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A comprehensive tool for displaying a variety of information on the Moon and aspects of its behaviour. » 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. » 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, and radius. » 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, bu » NGCView
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] Astronomical Observation Suite - Astronomical observation and logging software. » PyEphem
[open source - multiplatform] A module for performing astronomical computations using the Python scripting language. » SBIG Linux Kernel/Library Module
This page contains Linux Kernel/Library Module for SBIG CCD Cameras » STD Aurora Monitor Software
[commercial - Win95/98/NT/2000] Advanced auroral activity monitoring software. » SkySight
[commercial, Win/Mac] CCD camera control and image processing, includes SkyChart III. » StarTrak
Freeware for handheld computers to help find and track objects of the night sky. » 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. |
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Last Updated: 2007-02-17 13:40:03
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