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Resources currently sorted by:Title (Z-A) Xplns | | Description: | Xplns reproduces real starry sky on your display of X Window System. It calculates the position of many celestial objects (stars, galaxies, nebulae, constellations, planets, comets, etc.) very accurately. You can enjoy the past and future sky on the desk top as if you have traveled all around the world. In solar system projection mode, you can examine motion of solar objects.
You can observe motion of the stars with tracking an object. The information display function let you know the rise, set and meridian time of solar objects, when dusk ends, when dawn starts, moon age, etc. These functions are helpful for observing stars under the real sky. There are fourteen projection mode in xplns, "Horizontal View Mode", "Equatorial Mode", "Ecliptic Mode", "Galactic Mode", "Planisphere Mode" and "Solar System Mode".
Requires: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE(ELF) on i386 (we successfully installed it on 5.1) and XFree86 4.1 (256 or more colors) .
Available as a precompiled package. | | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 03-Sep-2003 | | Downloads: | 338 | | Rating: | 9.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
 Xplanet  |  | Description: | Xplanet was inspired by Xearth. It renders images on the desktop background.
All of the major planets and most satellites can be drawn, similar to a Solar System Simulator. A number of different map projections are also supported, including azimuthal, Mercator, Mollweide, orthographic and rectangular.
A bunch of useful scripts are separately available: to update your maps with the latest cloud images, satellite orbits, weather information, and recent volcanoes and earthquakes, and create images with different projections and viewpoints; to create marker files for earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and satellites, as well as the markerfiles themselves and a cloud map mirror.
Check the homepage to find about these scripts and the available texture maps.
This is the Port for FreeBSD. Source for Linux, Darwin and Mac OSX compilation and a Windows version are also available. | | | Version: | 1.0.1 | | Filesize: | 97.66 Kb | | Added on: | 30-Sep-2003 | | Downloads: | 503 | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Editorial | |
| XFITSview | | Description: | With easy to o use graphical controls, will display astronomical images in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format allowing zooming, scrolling, modifying the brightness, contrast and pseudo color and allow determination of celestial positions and the physical brightness units in the image. Both standard World Coordinate System (WCS) and Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) coordinates are supported. Positions and brightnesses of selected pixels may be logged to a text file and specified positions in the image may be marked.
Images may be compared by "blinking" them and 3 dimensional images may be viewed a plane at a time or in the form of a movie. Blanked pixels and all defined FITS image data types are supported. Normal or gzip compressed files may be used. The programs contain extensive online documentation and are suitable for use as external FITS image viewers for Web browsers.
These viewers are distributed by the (USA) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) free of charge.
The FITSview family of viewers for FITS format astronomical images are available for Microsoft Windows (FITSview), Apple Macintosh (MacFITSview) and Unix/X-Windows (XFITSview) computer systems.
This is the source for the UNIX/X version.
Note: the screenshot is from the Windows version. | | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 30-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 338 | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| 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.»
This (name link) is the port for FreeBSD. Linux RPMs are also available. | | | Version: | 3.6 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 473 | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Stellarium (BSD/Unix) | | 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 the FreeBSD port. Windows, Linux and MacOSX versions are also available. | | | Version: | 0.6.2 | | Filesize: | 8.58 MB | | Added on: | 16-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 440 | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| SpaceChart | | Description: | SpaceChart is a program that allows you to see the stars in 3D and rotate them to see them from any point of view. You can also limit which stars you want to see, according to their spectral class and luminosity, and draw links between all stars closer than a certain distance.
Data available includes all stars in the Hipparcos catalogue within 60 parsecs (over 190 light years) of the Sun.
The title above links to the FreeBSD port. Source to compile for other OS, namely Linux, is also available from the homepage; either as a tarball or from CVS. | | | Version: | 0.9.4 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 23-Jan-2004 | | Downloads: | 465 | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| 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 port for FreeBSD. There are also Windows and Linux versions available. | | | Version: | 3beta | | Filesize: | 4.77 MB | | Added on: | 30-Sep-2003 | | Downloads: | 484 | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Nova | | Description: | A free Integrated Observational Environment for amateur astronomers. Still on an early stage and under development. It will combine Ephemeris, Sky view, Observatory control and basic Image manipulation functionality into a single application.
Planned features:
- Virtual view of night sky
- Ephemeris calculation and plotting.
- Telescope control
- CCD control
- Image manipulation
- Supports most ASCII astronomical object catalogs
- Automatic scheduling of observational activity.
The roadmap for release 0.5 (May 2004) includes adding:
- Sky view settings dialog
- Constellation boundaries
- Object labelling
- Grid labelling
- Fix broken spherical sky view
- Spiderd interface started
- Galaxies
The title above links to the FreeBSD port. For other platforms, you can access the source code from the homepage. | | | Version: | 0.4.0 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 15-Apr-2004 | | Downloads: | 478 | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| 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 Unix/BSD port. A Linux version is also available. | | | Version: | 3.4.0 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 398 | | Rating: | 10.0 (2 Votes) | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
| IRAF | | Description: | IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics, plus a large number of programs for the reduction and analysis of optical and IR astronomy data (the "noao" packages). Other external or layered packages are available for applications such as data acquisition or handling data from other observatories and wavelength regimes such as the Hubble Space Telescope (optical), EUVE (extreme ultra-violet), or ROSAT and AXAF or Chandra (X-ray). These external packages are distributed separately from the main IRAF distribution but can be easily installed. The IRAF system also includes a complete programming environment for scientific applications, which includes a programmable Command Language scripting facility, the IMFORT Fortran/C programming interface, and the full SPP/VOS programming environment in which the portable IRAF system and all applications are written.
This is the Unix version. | | | Version: | 2.12.1 | | Filesize: | 19.07 MB | | Added on: | 08-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 343 | | Category: | BSD/Unix | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
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