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Resources currently sorted by:Date (Old downloads listed first) XEphem  | | Description: | The best and most know non Windows astronomy app. «Computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for all objects; has built-in support for all planets; the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Earth; central meridian longitude of Mars and Jupiter; Saturn's rings; and Jupiter's Great Red Spot. allows user-defined objects including stars, deepsky objects, asteroids, comets and Earth satellites. offers many large databases including Tycho, Hipparcos, GSC, USNO. Displays data in configurable tabular formats in conjunction with several interactive graphical views; graphically displays a 24 hour period showing when any selected objects are up; 3-D stereo views of the Solar System that are particularly well suited for visualizing comet trajectories; quickly finds all close pairs of objects in the sky; sorts and prints all catalogs with very flexible criteria for creating custom observing lists; can create plots of any pairs of all data fields throughout the program. Self downloads/updates from the Internet AAVSO light curves, current asteroid and comets lists from Lowell and MPC; timely Earth satellite orbital TLE parameters; Digitized Sky Survey FITS files from STScI or ESO. Displays seti@home client progress and plots position being processed on Sky View map; provides a handy spreadsheet for converting among equatorial, ecliptic, horizontal and galactic coordinates; includes a compiler for entering and solving user-written functions using any data fields; serves as the control point for GOTO telescopes such as Meade LX200 (Mac users will need a USB-to-Serial adaptor, not included, but we do support those made by KeySpan); displays FITS files and DSS images overlaid with properly registered database symbols and other graphical information; performs automatic star pattern matching to solve for accurate World Coordinate System on any image; performs 1-click 2D Gaussian relative and absolute photometry; lets you define and save any number of Eyepieces to use in sky maps; displays your own local horizon profile; can store sets of Sky View options for easy playback later; uses high quality Postscript for all printing.»
These (name link) are the Linux RPMs. A port for FreeBSD is also available. | | | Version: | 3.6 | | Filesize: | 2.38 MB | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 547 | | Rating: | 10.0 (2 Votes) | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (2) | |
| KStars | | Description: | Part of KDE's «edutainment» project, «provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.».
It is able to fetch online images for chosen objects. Telescope support with Indi is available.
Integrated multiple languages translation.
This is the Linux version. A Unix/BSD port is also available. | | | Version: | 3.4.0 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 448 | | Rating: | 9.1 (4 Votes) | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
 Celestia | | Description: | Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
This is the Linux version. Add-ons, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Windows versions are also available. | | | Version: | 1.3.2 | | Filesize: | 6.29 MB | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 364 | | Rating: | 8.3 (4 Votes) | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Gnome Predict | | Description: | «Gnome Predict is a satellite tracking program for Gnome. In the begining it was just a GUI client to John Magliacane's Predict, but due to performance problems it has been decided to include the tracking code directly.
The current version can track a large number of satellites, display the satellite data in lists and/or show the satellites on maps. It is possible to have several lists and maps open at the same time in a separate windows or organized in a notebook (you can also have some of them in a notebook and some of them in their own window). The lists can be sorted and the maps can be saved and printed. You can alse make brief or detailed predictions of upcoming passes and each pass can be plotted in a radial plot. The predictions and plots can be saved and printed as well.»
| | | Version: | 1.4 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 454 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| SkyChart / CDC 3 (alpha) | | Description: | Preview of the forthcoming Linux release of one of the best astronomy apps for Windows (more details under Windows -> Cartography).
The new version 3.08 brings the following:
«The default database is now SQLite to simplify the installation process. A personal database is now automatically created the first time the program is run. MySQL is still available if needed.
Added the Calendar menu similar to the 2.76 one, with more functions for the comets and asteroids.
Added a display bar to quickly show or hide given objects from the chart. Completed the menu with all the available functions.
In the configuration menu you can set the nebulae color and preview the background picture.
Now it uses Xplanet (xplanet.sourceforge.net) to display the planet image on Linux.
Plus a lot of bug fixes the previous version was filled with. | | | Version: | 3.08 | | Filesize: | 5.72 MB | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 297 | | Rating: | 7.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
| OpenUniverse | | Description: | Simulates the Solar System's bodies in 3D. It does so in real time, meaning that you can view all the planets, moons and spaceships move along their paths, trace, follow, orbit and even control them (time and spaceship parameters control). Pretty realistic, it quite hardware intensive.
If you have a good graphical accelerator you may wish to download additional/optional planet textures featuring an even higher resolution.
You will need to have a few OpenGL libraries already present in you system (you probably have them without noticing it); otherwise you will need to separately install them.
This is the Linux version. There is also a Windows version. | | | Version: | 3beta | | Filesize: | 4.10 MB | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 356 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| StarCat | | Description: | Starcat is a viewer for the Bright Star, Hipparcos and Tycho star catalogs. The default catalog is the Bright Star Catalog with over 9000 stars. The Hipparcos catalog contains over 100,000 stars (above) and the Tycho catalog over 1,000,000 stars. StarCats is a visualization tool for these catalogs which also gives direct access to the catalog record data for any star by pointing and clicking.
This is the Linux version. A Windows version is also available. | | | Version: | 0.96 | | Filesize: | 247.00 Kb | | Added on: | 07-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 296 | | Rating: | 1.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
| Predict | | Description: | PREDICT provides real-time satellite tracking and orbital prediction information to users and client applications in a variety of ways: Through the system console; Through the command line;
Through a network socket;
Through the generation of audio speech.
Data such as a spacecraft's sub-satellite point, azimuth and elevation headings, Doppler shift, path loss, slant range, orbital altitude, orbital velocity, footprint diameter, orbital phase (mean anomaly), squint angle, eclipse depth, the time and date of the next AOS (or LOS of the current pass), orbit number, and sunlight and visibility information are provided on a real-time basis. PREDICT can also track (or predict the position of) the Sun and Moon. PREDICT also has the ability to control AZ/EL antenna rotators to maintain accurate orientation in the direction of communication satellites. As an aid in locating and tracking satellites through optical means, PREDICT can articulate tracking coordinates and visibility information as plain speech.
This is the Linux version. DOS and Sharp Zaurus PDA version are also available
| | | Version: | 2.2.2 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 08-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 278 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Stellarium (Linux) | | Description: | Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Features:
- Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos for the brightest ones.
- Planets and major satellites in real time, with a powerfull zoom mode to see them like in a telescope.
- Planet position computation now accurate enough for eclipse or transit simulation.
- Drawing of the 88 constellations with their names.
- Textured displaying of more than 70 nebulas (Orion, M31 etc..).
- Photorealistic Milky Way.
- Ground, fog, and landscape.
- Ultra fast realistic atmosphere rendering.
- Automatic eye adaptation to luminance.
- Star twinkling.
- Smooth real time intuitive navigation.
- Equatorial and altazimutal mode.
- Fisheye projection mode (e.g for planetarium dome).
- Grids in Equatorial and Azimuthal coordinates.
- Time control (real time and accelered time modes).
- Graphical menu for simple utilisation.
- Clikable stars, planets and nebulas with informations.
- Ecliptic and celestrial equator lines.
- Windowed and fullscreen modes.
Requires a 3D Card with a support for OpenGL.
This is source the Linux version. Windows, Unix and MacOSX versions are also available.
Above (program name) you will find a link to source code. You can also download an old Linux Mandrake RPM and an old Linux Debian package version. | | | Version: | 0.6.2 | | Filesize: | 8.58 MB | | Added on: | 16-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 390 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Galaxy Collisions Simulation | | Description: | This is a simple program designed to graphically portray how disk galaxies can transform themselves through collisions. The two disks are set up with up to 3000 test 'particles' in Keplerian orbits around two centrally-dominated masses -- approximately at the sophistication of the landmark Toomre and Toomre papers of the 1970's.
The goal of the program is to facilitate curiousity and tinkering, as well as providing an impressive real-time movie of the galactic interactions.
Famous twisted galaxies like M51 and NGC 4038/9 can be nicely modeled using this program. Matter bridges, tidal tails, and ring galaxies can all be neatly demonstrated in real time.
An «old timer», dating back to 1997.
The title links to the Linux X86 installation file. Solaris and Windows versions are also available. | | | Filesize: | 29.30 Kb | | Added on: | 01-Sep-2003 | | Downloads: | 367 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
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