24 projects tagged "Astronomy"
Updated 03 May 2009
SolarBeam
| Pop | 35.89 |
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| Vit | 1.42 |
SolarBeam is a desktop application for drawing solar diagrams. You supply the geographical position, and it draws a diagram showing the Sun's trajectory over your location at various times of the year. It also shows the times of sunrise and sunset.
Updated 21 Jan 2009
MpcReader
| Pop | 14.56 |
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| Vit | 39.81 |
MpcReader retrieves comet and asteroid orbital data in MPC format from the Web and store it on your computer in different formats. The data is fetched from the MPC. The main job of MpcReader is to convert plain MPC data to the format needed for KStars.
Updated 24 Jan 2008
Henry
| Pop | 19.60 |
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| Vit | 1.73 |
Henry is an educational astrometry utility for performing calculations based on a Hertzsprung-Russel (H-R) diagram, such as spectroscopic parallax for working out the distance to a given star. Unlike many other solutions that use in-built images for their H-R diagrams, Henry plots data directly from the European Space Agency's HIPPARCOS catalog, allowing increased accuracy while also giving students greater room to experiment by exploring the catalogue themselves.
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 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.
Updated 07 Aug 2010
Gregorian calendar 1582
| Pop | 32.80 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
Gregorian calendar 1582 is a small Python script to generate calendars for any year in the history greater or equal to one. The output format is the same as the Unix "cal" command. However, it supposes the Gregorian Reformation took place on October 4th, 1582, in contrast to the cal, which supposes the reformation took place on September 3rd, 1752.
Updated 12 Apr 2005
GNOME Lunar Clock Applet
| Pop | 39.62 |
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| Vit | 2.10 |
GNOME Lunar Clock Applet displays the current phase of the moon as an applet for the GNOME panel. It also provides various astronomical data such as clock functions, rise and set times for the moon, and the current coordinates of the moon.
Updated 16 Jun 2004
Lin4Astro
| Pop | 22.29 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
Lin4astro is a live-CD based on Morphix that was made especially for astronomers. It features the celestia, Skycharts, Stellarium, and Xephem planetarium tools as well as Audela and Qastrocam for Web cams.
Updated 04 Aug 2006
Mars MOLA Viewer
| Pop | 71.65 |
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| Vit | 2.34 |
Mars MOLA Viewer displays a fly-over rendering of the Martian surface, as measured by the Mars Global Surveyor, in real-time 3D animation. It downloads the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter topographic data files and uses them to drive the rendering. The user controls the position and the angle of the camera, and can move seamlessly over the entire Martian surface from -88 to 88 degrees latitude. It is a Java Web Start program with 1-click installation from your browser (depending on platform/browser).
Updated 01 Mar 2004
MarsClock
| Pop | 37.82 |
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| Vit | 2.69 |
MarsClock is designed to aid engineers, astronomers, Gods of War, Hrossa, and specifically mission controllers for the upcoming NASA MER and ESA Beagle-II missions to Mars. It converts to and from Earth time (Local and UTC) and Mars time (Local Mean Solar Time and Local True Solar Time) for any location.
