Projects within Astronomy

  • Astro::Catalog

    - Object-oriented astronomical catalogue

  • Astroconst

    - Makes header files that define astrophysical constants

  • Botec

    - a simple astrophysical and orbital mechanics calculator.

  • Celestia

    - Visual simulation of space

  • EPICS

    - Distributed Process Control Tool Kit Components

  • Ephemeris

    - Reads, writes and interpolates planetary positions using JPL's ephemeris files

  • Galaxy- Stellar Simulation

    - a program which simulates the motion of stars under the influence of gravity.

  • Global Village

    - a Gnome application designed to place a front-end, or graphical user interface onto the CLI interface of Xplanet.

  • Hitchhiker 2000

    - Astronomy simulation program

  • KATCP

    - Karoo Array Telescope Communication Protocol library

  • Kstars

    - Desktop planetarium for KDE

  • LibRadtran

    - Calculates solar and thermal radiation

  • Msetimon

    - Multi-SETI@home Monitor

  • Nightfall

    - Simulate eclipsing binary stars

  • Planet Finder

    - Shows the location of planetary bodies

  • Qastrocam

    - Video capture program

  • SImg

    - Astronomical image processing software

  • Stellarium

    - Renders realistic skies in real time with openGL

  • Sunclock

    - Clock for the X Window System

  • Sunwait

    - Calculates sunrise, sunset, and civil, nautical, twilight, astronomical twilight

  • Xplanet

    - Draws the earth or other planets

  • avsomat

    - Autoschedules and manages astronomical observation data

  • gcx

    - Complete set of data-reduction functions for CCD photometry

  • gnuskies

    - Project to create a free version of the xephem program

  • libnova

    - Celestial mechanics and astronomical calculation library

  • nMod nBody Modelling Toolkit

    - Particle-particle nbody model

  • spacechart

    - Displays the stars in space in 3D
 
 

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