FREE SOFTWARE DIRECTORY

Astronomy

Projects within Astronomy

• Astro::Catalog

  - Object-oriented astronomical catalogue

• Astroconst

  - Makes header files that define astrophysical constants

• Celestia

  - Visual simulation of space

• EPICS

  - Distributed Process Control Tool Kit Components

• Ephemeris

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

• Hitchhiker 2000

  - Astronomy simulation program

• 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