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Astronomy software
Astronomy software helps observers and students explore the sky, plan observations and process astronomical images. The most familiar category is the planetarium or sky-charting program, which renders the positions of stars, planets, the Moon and deep-sky objects for any date, time and location on Earth. By combining star catalogues with orbital data, these programs can show the sky as it appeared in the past, predict how it will look in the future, and identify objects visible at a given moment.
Closely related are ephemeris tools, which compute the precise positions and rise and set times of Solar System bodies, and utilities that predict events such as eclipses, planetary conjunctions, satellite passes and the visibility of comets. Many programs draw on standard catalogues like Hipparcos, Tycho or Messier and the New General Catalogue (NGC) to label objects accurately.
For people with telescopes, some software adds telescope control, sending pointing commands to motorised mounts (often through the ASCOM standard on Windows) so the instrument slews automatically to a chosen target. Other programs focus on capturing and processing images: stacking many exposures to reduce noise, aligning frames, and enhancing planetary or deep-sky photographs. Open-source planetarium programs such as Stellarium and the data-rich SkyChart (Cartes du Ciel) are widely used examples, and many tools are distributed as freeware for education and amateur use.
Frequently asked questions
- What is planetarium software?
- It is a program that displays a realistic map of the sky for any chosen time and place, showing stars, planets and deep-sky objects and how they move.
- Can astronomy software control a telescope?
- Yes. Many programs can send pointing commands to a motorised mount, often through the ASCOM interface, so the telescope automatically aims at a selected object.
- What is an ephemeris?
- An ephemeris is a table or calculation of the positions of celestial bodies over time, used to find where a planet, the Moon or a comet will appear.
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software - Freeware:
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DOS:
DOS -
Software |
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Educational software:
Astronomy,
Chemistry,
Educational,
Geography,
Mathematics,
Physics |
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General:
General |
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Hardware:
Benchmarking,
Computerports,
CPU,
Hardware,
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Memory,
Monitor
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Linux:
GNU/Linux OS,
Linux Applications |
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Miscellaneous:
File conversion tools,
File
tools,
Miscellaneous,
PDF
Tools |
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Multimedia:
Audio,
Blu-ray, CD, DVD Tools,
Graphics tools,
Media players,
MP3-MPEG4 software,
Video-DIVx |
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Networking:
Internet tools,
Networking,
Online tools-internet,
TCP/IP tools,
Wireless |
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Online tools |
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Security:
Safety
tools,
Spyware
removal,
Virus
software |
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Windows:
Windows,
Windows boot disks,
Windows tools |
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Astronomy software and
calculators
 related
topic: Space & Astronomy |
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Adastra
astronomy
Adastra astronomy. Approach the heavens with this accessible
32-bit planetarium, and explore your night sky from any location or date.
Adastra permits quick, toolbar driven manipulation of its realtime sky
display, with center, zoom, directional, animation, and panning functions as
standard, zip file |
| Astronomy and numerical software
Astronomy and numerical software source codes |
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Cartesius grapher
allows the user to produce an image of a flat or cylindrical sundial, on
screen or on paper |
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Das Planetarium |
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De Sterrenhemel
Dit educatieve programma toont o.a. de sterrenhemel alsof je door een
vensterraam kijkt. Je kunt dat raam in iedere gewenste windrichting draaien en
overal op aarde neerzetten. Hierdoor is het eenvoudig om de naam van een ster of
planeet te vinden |
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Gpredict
Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. It
can track an unlimited number of satellites and display their position and other
data in lists, tables, maps, and polar plots (radar view). Gpredict can also
predict the time of future passes for a satellite, and provide you with detailed
information about each pass |
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GPS: Satellite tracking with GPS
V2.4 The GPS-Navigation is based on the distance calculation to the
NAVSTAR-satellites in space. The distance is received by calculating the time
span for the signal to reach the receiver. With this information, it is also
possible to get velocity information. GPS is not only used for aeronautic and
aquanautic facilities; you can also find GPS receiver in security or
transportation systems and lots of other systems |
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Gravity Simulator Download Gravity Simulator |
| Homeplanet
a comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking software package |
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JSatTrak JSatTrak is a Satellite tracking program written in Java. It
allows you to predict the position of any satellite in real time or in the
past or future |
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MapToGeo - for GeoSatSignal
mapping tool, MapToGeo allows you to take images
in Plate-Carreé projection (azimuthal equidistant - linear latitude and
longitude) and convert them into the view as seen by the current geostationary
weather satellites around the world |
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Moonphase 3.1 Moonphase 3.1 - displays the current moon phase of current day
as an icon in the Activity field. You can change time zone, latitude and
longitude |
| Orbitron - Satellite
Tracking System Orbitron is a satellite tracking system for radio
amateur and observing purposes. It's also used by weather professionals,
satellite communication users, astronomers, UFO hobbyist and even
astrologers |
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ORSA Orbit
Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis |
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Relativity
to learn about time dilation, mass expansion, and length contraction |
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Satellite Finder
Satellite Finder is a way to accurately point satellite dishes at communications
satellites in geostationary orbit |
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Satellite Tracking GPS 2.4 |
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Solar Model The Solar Model is real time modeling of solar system. It
allows user to navigate in space, to control time counting (speed-up time
flow) and estimate movement of space bodies, bind camera to space objects
(e.g. from Moon on Earth in real time) |
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Solar System 3D Simulator
Solar System 3D Simulator is a FREE software application that generates a
realistic solar system model and planets in 3 Dimension on the PC using
advanced physics formulas. It can display the planets and their orbits, the
sun and the moon. The nine planets including planet earth and their detailed
physical & chemical information and image pictures is also displayed
including solar power, solar energy and solar eclipse details. The graphical
output is in high-resolution 3D full color format and the orbit view can be
adjusted and the orbits tilted & rotated to any angle. The speed of the
solar system can also be varied |
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Stellarium
Stellarium is planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you
look up at the stars. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see
with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope |
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Suncycle
Suncycle is a calendar showing the sunrise and sunset time for a
latitude/longitude and timezone You can also configurate in the aboutscreen the
winter and summer time offset |
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WinOrbit Satellite Tracking,
devoted to satellite orbit prediction, tracking, and radio communication, with
emphasis on low-cost and educational approaches for the do-it-yourselfer or
hobbyist, Orbital prediction is determining where a particular object will be at
a particular time (past, present or future),
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WorldWide Telescope
The WorldWide Telescope Web Client is a browser-based version of WorldWide
Telescope that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from
the best ground- and space-based telescopes to enable seamless, guided
explorations of the universe from within a Web browser for Windows PC and Intel
Mac OS X user |
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WXtrack - Satellite tracking
designed to predict the tracks of
satellites both as paths above the earth, and as images produced by these
satellites when scanning the ground |
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