89 projects tagged "Astronomy"
Updated 18 Jul 2012
GRALE
| Pop | 36.78 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
GRALE is a set of tools - a library and a number of accompanying applications - to study gravitational lenses. Gravitational lenses are astronomical objects so massive that their gravitational pull even deflects light rays. This can cause multiple copies of the same background object to be visible, like a cosmic mirage. The locations and shapes of these copies can provide information about the mass distribution of the gravitational lens, which GRALE can help recover using a genetic algorithm-based method. Apart from these so-called lens inversions, it's also possible to simulate gravitational lenses.
Updated 31 Mar 2011
coords
| Pop | 47.01 |
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| Vit | 5.71 |
coords is a planetarium program. It's still under construction, but it does a good job of showing the sky with stars and planets at the correct positions.
Updated 16 Aug 2008
AstroBuffer
| Pop | 39.50 |
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| Vit | 4.00 |
AstroBuffer is a CCD astrophotography image manipulation application. It can open FITS and SBIG (st9) files. Contrast is adjustable to view different backgrounds and ranges of an image. It can scale, shift, rotate, and zoom in and out. Images can be aligned based on two star alignment, and can be summed, subtracted, averaged, and divided. RGB color images can be created from three images. Images can be saved as FITS or as any format that QT supports.
Updated 29 May 2008
extrema
| Pop | 82.49 |
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| Vit | 5.33 |
Extrema, originally developed in the fields of nuclear and particle physics, is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information. Its flexibility, sophistication, and power allow you to easily develop your own commands and create highly customized graphs.
Updated 02 Dec 2006
multican
| Pop | 35.55 |
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| Vit | 1.77 |
multican is a Canon EOS class camera remote control utility. It is able to remote control 400D, 300D, 350D, 30D, 20D, and 5D cameras and can be scripted to control up to six attached cameras.
Updated 17 May 2006
OSXmoontool
| Pop | 16.61 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
OSXmoontool displays information about the moon, like moon phase and the Earth-to-moon distance.
Updated 30 Aug 2006
MMap (a map viewer)
| Pop | 65.60 |
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| Vit | 2.29 |
MMap is a GTK2 map viewer. It supports Blue Marble, Land Sat 7, Watchizu, SRTM. You can show a part of World Wind data with OpenGL 3D graphics.
Updated 11 Nov 2005
Optical Ray Tracer
| Pop | 34.29 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
OpticalRayTracer analyzes systems of lenses. It uses optical principles and a virtual optical bench to predict the behavior of many kinds of ordinary and exotic lens types. It includes an easy-to-use interface that allows the user to rearrange the optical configuration by simply dragging lenses around using the mouse. It fully analyzes lens optical properties, including refraction and dispersion. The dispersion display uses color-coded light beams to simplify interpretation of the results.
Updated 11 Nov 2005
Messiggy
| Pop | 31.27 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
Messiggy is a database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.
Updated 24 Sep 2005
Open Source Astronomy
| Pop | 40.10 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
Open Source Astronomy is a comprehensive collection of astronomy software packages built for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Each collection comprises approximately 5GB of software. An installation assistant is included along with a browsable documentation library covering all included packages.
