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Overall rating: 10.00
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.
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Author(s): Elwood Downey (xephem@ClearSkyInstitute.com)
Version: 3.6 Filesize: 2.38 MB
Language(s): English
License type: Free for private use.
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