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Resources currently sorted by:Popularity (Descending) MoonCalc  | | Description: | Everything you may ever want to know about the Moon: "position, age, phase, orientation, appearance and visibility for any given date, time and location on Earth. It also provides the Julian Day Number, Magnetic Declination, time and direction of moonrise and moonset, interval between sunset and moonset, interval between sunrise and moonrise, date/time of astronomical new moon (conjunction), full moon".
The program also produces several graphical animations, which can be printed out: showing the position of the Moon on a star chart and in a simulated local sky. A close-up of the near side of the Moon is also produced, as well as the drawing of world maps showing areas of the globe where the young Moon is likely to be seen.
Runs under DOS and or Windows. | | | Version: | 6.0 | | Filesize: | 605.47 Kb | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 657 | | Rating: | 8.0 (2 Votes) | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
 ASTRO | | Description: | Multipurpose software (ephemerides, planetarium...) written in QuickBASIC and best suited for altazimuthal / dobsonian telescope owners.
Coordinates conversion remains the most useful characteristic of ASTRO but not the only one. Other features (and they are far to many for us to describe all here) are geared toward the deep sky, reference stars, comets and asteroids etc.. | | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 03-Dec-2003 | | Downloads: | 583 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
| KEPLER II | | Description: | Educational tool which simulates an astronomical observatory. It places at the disposal of the student the instruments with which he can remake the great discoveries of astronomy and thus acquire a scientific method.
Tools are split in three main categories:
The virtual observatory (observation post; celestial hemisphere; sights with a telescope)
Instruments of the astronomer (stick of Eratosthenes; the quadrant; camera; stop watch; micrometer; photometer; spectrograph; meridian circle; radius vector...)
Teaching aids (chart of the world; sky seen from two places; the Jovian system; Earth seen from space; the solar system; graphical almanac etc.)
| | | Version: | 1a | | Filesize: | 976.56 Kb | | Added on: | 29-Dec-2003 | | Downloads: | 562 | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| MAXCLOCK | | Description: | MAXCLOCK is a high-precision digital astronomical clock. It displays the following data on your computer screen:
- Civil date & time, day number in the year;
- Julian date and modified Julian date both in terms of ephemeris time ET (TT) and universal time UT1;
- Delta-T, the difference between ET and UT1;
- Mean solar time, apparent solar time, equation of time;
- Mean sidereal time, apparent sidereal time, equation of equinoxes;
- Geocentric ecliptical and equatorial coordinates of sun and moon;
- Constellation and zodiac sign for the sun;
- Constellation, zodiac sign, phase, appearance, and illuminated fraction of the moon;
- Elongation between sun and moon;
- Earth distance to sun and moon;
Coordinates may be referenced to mean dynamic equinox and ecliptic of date or to FK5, inclusion of nutation and/or aberration is freely selectable.
Time data are displayed for ITRF Greenwich zero meridian. Solar and sidereal times are also displayed for any other freely user-selectable location anywhere on planet earth, e.g. for your home observation site. | | | Version: | 3.1 | | Filesize: | 195.31 Kb | | Added on: | 04-Feb-2004 | | Downloads: | 554 | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
 Interactive Computer Ephemeris | | Description: | «The program covers nearly all that is given in the yearly "Astronomical Almanac" published by USNO. Positions of planets; rotational and illum- ination data; sun/moon/planet rise, transit, and set times. It does not include the satellite (moon) data for other planets; the latter IS included in the book. The output is a simple numerical tabulation, no graphics. Accuracy is equivalent to the book, that is, world-class accuracy. Output may be directed to a file for later use.
A more recent program called MICA (Multi-year Interactive Computer Alamanac) is intended to replace ICE. MICA also runs on the Macintosh. However, MICA is good for only 1990 - 2000, whereas ICE covers 1801 to 2049. And, unlike ICE, MICA is not free.
ICE is no longer supported by USNO. »
| | | Version: | 0.51 | | Filesize: | 1000.00 Kb | | Added on: | 07-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 551 | | Rating: | 10.0 (2 Votes) | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Planet Tracker | | Description: | Planet Tracker is built in three modules: 1) Animations of planetary motion along the ecliptic and against the background of the Zodiac stars; 2) Split-screen animations comparing five different frames of reference, allowing any two to be compared side-by-side - the five viewpoints are: the apparent dome of the sky for a fixed time of day, the zodiac as seen from the Earth, heliocentric solar system, geocentric solar system, and a special rotating frame of reference holding both the earth and sun stationary; 3) Worksheet generator for classrooms without computers - including the features: «Basic Worksheets» (produces heliocentric and geocentric orbit diagrams and time lines for any given starting date), «Zodiac Time Line» (for any day of the year project the planet positions on that date up to the ecliptic, which runs along the center of the star chart strip at the top of the page) and «Solar Time Line».
| | | Version: | 4.2 | | Filesize: | 99.19 Kb | | Added on: | 07-Nov-2003 | | Downloads: | 476 | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| GalaSimu | | Description: | Simulates interacting galaxies. Features:
- Parameters. Number of particles, particle distribution and all physical initial values can be modify.
- Rotating. The dynamical presentation of the interaction can rotate around all three axes from 1 up to 180 degree per keypress.
- Zooming. Zoom in and zoom out is possible in 4 percent steps.
- Scale and direction of axes always displayed.
- Colors. Colors of menu and the particle colors can be modify.
- Parametering of values. Up to 10 values can assign to each parameter.
- Pictures. Pictures can save as *.PCX files, colored or black&white, anytime a key is pressed.
- Sequence of pictures. GalaSimu can save up to 999 pictures through a simulation.
| | | Version: | 1.34 | | Filesize: | 164.76 Kb | | Added on: | 04-May-2004 | | Downloads: | 439 | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Globular Cluster | | Description: | This simple DOS program written in Turbo Pascal simulates globular clusters pictorially. The user specifies the number of stars that the cluster is to contain. The resulting simulation is then plotted out.
| | | Version: | 1 | | Filesize: | 58.20 Kb | | Added on: | 07-Feb-2005 | | Downloads: | 415 | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Deep Space | | Description: | Sky mapping software. In the shareware version all functions are fully operable (including telescope interface support!), but printer support is limited to Postscript, and the databases are reduced (naked-eye stars, fewer comets and asteroids, and only the Messier list of deep sky objects). The shareware version is intended to be a trial copy, but it is quite serviceable in its own right for many purposes. Even if you decide not to register, the shareware version itself is worth the download time.
The full commercial version of Deep Space comes on a CD ROM that contains the 250,000 star NASA Skymap database, the 18-million star Guide Star Catalog, the Saguaro Deep Sky database with about 10,000 objects, and about 10,000 asteroids and comets. The program and data files can be downloaded for use on laptops or other computers that lack a CD ROM drive | | | Version: | 5.56 | | Filesize: | 1.34 MB | | Added on: | 07-Nov-2003 | | Downloads: | 402 | | Category: | DOS | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| SkyGlobe | | Description: | Classical DOS planetarium.
Although not particularly accurate by current standards, it is still a splendid application since the way it uses the display and the simplicity of operation remain virtually unbeaten.
| | | Version: | 3.6 | | Filesize: | 361.33 Kb | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 399 | | Category: | DOS | | Rate resource | Details | |
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