FAQ: Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS)

Calendar FAQ, v. 2.0 (modified 11 Nov 1998) Part 1/3

Space FAQ 04/13 - Calculations

Interplanetary Network Aims for the Stars ( John Charles ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-09)

The Internet in Space: Problems and Solutions ( Lee Goldberg ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-02)

Beginning Astronomy? [2002/01/23]

PlanetFinder - This applet is still open source, but is no longer hosted on sourceforge. See www.lightandmatter.com/area2planet.shtml. I want to delete this project, but that doesn't seem to be possible. {(L)GPL}

Starchart - There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky. Starchart can currently create maps in Postscript, ASCII and PNG. {(L)GPL}

stars - An interactive star atlas for GNU/Linux {(L)GPL}

Ksetiwatch - Ksetiwatch monitors multiple SETI@home clients running on your computer or in your local network, and logs/manages completed work units. It is developed for the K Desktop Environment. {(L)GPL}

match-0.5 - A program for matching star lists

kstars-0.8.5 - Desktop planetarium that presents the night sky at any date and time

glunarclock-0.22.3 - A GNOME applet which displays the current phase of the Moon

p5-Astro-MoonPhase-0.10 - Perl interface to calculate information about the phase of the moon

rmap-1.2_1 - Generates images of the Earth centered at a particular location

wmMoonClock-1.27 - Displays the phase of the moon, plus orbital data

spacechart-0.9.4_1 - SpaceChart is a star chart viewer for GNOME

starplot-0.92.3 - 3-dimensional viewer for star charts

wmjupiter-1.2 - Dockapp that displays information on jupiter

planets-0.1.5 - An orbital simulator

wmsolar-1.0 - A dockapp that displays the solar system viewed from top

xworld-2.0 - Earth as seen from the direction of the sun

ephem-4.28 - An interactive terminal-based astronomical ephemeris program.

saoimage-1.29.3 - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory image utility for X

sattrack-3.1.6 - Real-time satellite tracking and orbit propagation program.

stars-1.0 - Star field demo.

sunclock-3.50.p1 - Shows which portion of the Earth's surface is illuminated by the Sun

xearth-1.1 - Set the root window to the image of earth

xphoon-1991.9.18 - Set the root window to the moon in its current phase

xtide-2.4 - Harmonic tide clock and tide predictor

xskyroot-920428 - realtime sky drawer for X root window

Moon_Age.C - Determine the phase of the moon for any given date {oss}

starchart - Starchart package patches {oss}

sao - Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory {oss}

phoon - Phase of the moon, date routines {oss}

starcharts - StarChart program and Yale star data {oss}

moon_sun - Sun and Moon rise/set program {oss}

ssystem - OpenGL Solar System Simulator {x,GPL}

Nightfall - Eclipsing binary star program {x,GPL}

Universe 3D

Complete Space and Astronomy 2.0 (4 CD-ROM)

Planetarium Platinum

Deep Space Explorer

Starry Night Beginner

Starry Night Pro

Starry Night Backyard

Redshift 4

XEphem - XEphem is a free interactive astronomy program for UNIX systems with X & Motif {x,free to use but restricted}

Sunriset.C - computes Sun rise/set times, start/end of twilight, and the length of the day at any date and latitude {oss}

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