Software
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- Alcyone Software
- Features the following programs: an ephemeris calculator, a collection of astronomical data in electronic form, Planet Orbits, C88, and Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility.
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- AstroMB
- Advanced software for astrometry, photometry, robotic observations. Huge database of images and catalogs. Works with MaximDL and ASCOM. Free downloads.
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- AstroTips.com
- News, reviews, articles, forums and downloads of astronomy related programs for various platforms.
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- Astronomy Common Object Model (ASCOM)
- Promoting the use of open scriptable tools for amateur and educational astronomy.
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- Astronomy Formulas
- Lunar and solar periodicity formulas, definitions, time formulas, notation, astronomical constants with computer code for a programmable HP 48 by James Q. Jacobs.
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- Cartes du Ciel / Sky Charts
- Freeware allowing one to draw charts according to the data of 15 catalogs of stars and nebulae, as well as the position of planets, asteroids, and comets. Available in English and is translated in 8 other languages.
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- DanIDL
- Provides a library of functions and routines written in the Interactive Data Language (IDL). Developed mainly for use in astronomy, the library also supplies general scientific and programming applications.
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- Kairos General Calendar Conversion Program
- [commercial, demo available -- Win95/98/NT] Includes calendars required by historians of astronomy and general historians. Many details are provided for Indian and Jewish calendars. There is also a display of positions of the Sun, Moon and planets, effectively replacing Tuckerman's tables. A horoscope display, and details of lunar visibility, are calculated from modern parameters.
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- Linux for Astronomy cdrom
- Astronomical software precompiled for the Linux operating system. Applications include general purpose image and signal processing tools, as well as algorithms in use at observatories and universities worldwide. Facilities for processing the data products of the major space-based instruments are also included. [Commercial - Linux]
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- Lunar Calendars and Eclipse Finder
- Windows software for converting dates in various lunar and other calendars and for finding lunar phases and eclipses of various kinds.
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- Nightfall
- Interactive program for computing synthetic lightcurves and generating animated views and best-fit models of eclipsing binary stars. [Open source - Linux/Unix]
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- Observation Manager
- Free and open java based astronomical logging tool. It stores data in an XML format called COMAST, a tool which provides a free schema definition for all kinds of astronomical observations.
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- A TIPSY file viewer with MPI capabilities
- [Open source - Linux] "Hubble in a bottle!" is visualization software for N-body simulations, which can be run in parallel using MPI for visualizing very large simulation results. Simulation output must be in TIPSY format.
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- Barnes & Hut Treecode Algorithm
- [open source - multiplatform] A guide to a tree code algorithm implementation, used for astronomical N-body simulations.
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- COSMOMC-- Monte Carlo evaluation of CMB parameters
- COSMOMC calculates a fast Markov Chain Monte-Carlo exploration of cosmological parameter space for an input set of constraints.
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- Cloudy & Associates
- Cloudy is an extensive, well-established, large-scale spectral synthesis code designed to simulate fully physical conditions within an astronomical plasma and then predict the emitted spectrum. The web page contains links to papers published with cloudy, the most recent version of the software itself, and a discussion board.