Software
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- Stellarium
- Shows a realistic sky in 3D, as with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope, including fisheye projection for domes. [Free open source (GPL) - Windows, Mac, Linux]
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- The Earth Centered Universe
- Planetarium and telescope control program. [Shareware - Win3.1/95/98/NT]
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- Astro-Mania
- Eight interactive levels covering various aspects of the universe. [Commercial - Windows]
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- GeoAstro Applet Collection
- Interactive Java applets display the position, daily and annual path of the sun and the moon, for any time and location. [Online - not available for any PC platforms]
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- Project CLEA
- Provides laboratory exercises that illustrate modern astronomical techniques using digital data and color images. They are suitable for high-school and college classes at all levels. Each CLEA laboratory exercise includes a dedicated computer program, a student manual, and a technical guide for the instructor. [Freeware - Windows, Macintosh]
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- Starry Night Education
- Interactive astronomy curriculum to help teachers inspire and engage astronomy and space science students across all levels of knowledge and ability.
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- AstroArt
- [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A complete software product for analysis and processing of astronomical images. With the built-in star atlas based on the Guide Star Catalogue, it is also possible to perform astrometric and photometric calibration on your images.
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- Auriga Imaging
- Auriga Imaging's program RegiStar automatically registers (aligns) astrophotos -- no user intervention required.
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- IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
- [open source - Unix, OpenVMS] A general-purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. IRAF is written and supported by the IRAF programming group at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona.
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- ISDA - Irregularly Spaced Data Analysis
- [Free - MSDOS, dosemu] Program to analyse irregularly spaced time series - variable star light curves.
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- MIIPS
- [open source - OpenVMS/Unix] Multipurpose Interactive Image Processing System does astronomical image analysis. The main package runs on OpenVMS, but many subsets can run on Unix. All source code is provided.
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- MaxIm DL
- [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT/2000] Image processing and CCD camera control software for astronomical imaging. Supports Apogee, Celestron, FLI, HiSIS, Meade, SBIG, and Starlight Xpress CCD cameras; video cameras, autoguiders, and filter wheels. ASCOM compliant.
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- Picture Window Image Editing Software
- Picture Window is a popular tool among serious amateur astrophotographers. By Digital Light and Color.
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- AstroGrav
- Astronomy software program that allows you to simulate how astronomical objects move and interact under the force of gravity.[Commercial, free demo, multilingual]
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- ChView
- [Freeware - Win3.x/95] A three-dimensional aid to viewing some of the nearer stars of our galaxy, navigating the distances between them, and accessing basic stellar information.
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- Copernic Space Simulator
- A freeware program that allows the user to navigate through the solar system neighbourhood at different times in past or future and see the sky in a stereographic projection.