Software
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- Orbiter Space Flight Simulator
- ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. It is not a space shooter, and aims to be as realistic as possible.
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- Solar System Applet
- [online Java applet] This 3-d solar system applet can be rotated and zoomed with the mouse. Below it are links to other online gravity simulators and resources for building solar system simulations.
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- StarStrider software 3D planetarium
- [shareware - Win 98/ME/2K/XP] A 3D software planetarium. Photo realistic real-time 3D renderings of 2 million stars, galaxies, nebulae, and the Milky Way. Includes several educative tutorials.
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- The Celestia Motherlode
- The addon repository for the 3-D space simulator Celestia. It includes tours, spacecraft, asteroids and fictional universes.
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- Universe Sandbox
- Interactive space simulator created by Dan Dixon. It includes the solar system, the nearest 1000 stars, the local group of galaxies and an unlimited number of fictional scenarios.
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- AstroPy
- [open source - multiplatform] Development and integration of tools and numerical algorithms into the Python scripting language.
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- Epoch_2000 Temporal Epoch Calculator
- Excel spreadsheet calculates temporal variation in astronomic constants, obliquity of the ecliptic, and illumination angles at any specified latitude. You need only input a date or the latitude.
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- JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides
- [commercial - multiplatform] This CD contains three Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides along with a toolbox of FORTRAN subroutines that allow the user to obtain the coordinates of the Sun, Moon, and nine major planets.
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- Moon Tool
- [Windows] A desktop application that displays the times of the various phases of the moon and a picture of the current phase of the moon.
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- Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac
- [commercial - DOS, Macintosh] A software system that provides high-precision astronomical data in tabular form for a wide variety of objects; it calculates much of the information tabulated in the benchmark annual publication, The Astronomical Almanac, but it goes beyond traditional almanacs by enabling you to calculate data for specified locations at specified times within a fifteen year interval (1990-2005).
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- STD Aurora Monitor Software
- [commercial - Win95/98/NT/2000] Advanced auroral activity monitoring software.
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- Starchart - Star mapping software
- [opensource - POSIX] There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.
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- FITS Image Viewers
- [free/open source - Windows, Macintosh, Unix] Download FITS viewers for various platforms.
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- FITS archive at NRAO
- This is an archive for the Flexible Image Transport System [FITS], the standard data interchange and archival format of the worldwide astronomy community.
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- Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) Support Office
- The format adopted by the astronomical community for data interchange and archival storage. Responsible for documenting the FITS standard, participating in its evolution, and advising NASA astrophysics missions on how to present their data in this type of format.