Sundial

GorbTrack

Friday, September 14, 2012 - 12:08

"Geostationary Orbit Tracker is a freeware program intended to be an aid in finding geostationary satellites. It produces output helpful in aiming dishes for receiving television broadcast satellites. The program also displays several astronomical values like the positions of the sun and moon. GorbTrack can read files provided by NIMA with the locations of thousands of cities for countries around the world, with the exception of the USA.

GorbTrack

SUNDI - Sundial Design

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 23:27

Easy design and plan of the most popular dials, including equation of time and analemma calculations, location data base with over 500 cities world wide, many export features like saving tabular data to MS-Excel, saving all graphics as BMP, GIF, TIF, JPG, WMF, a lot of customizing features of dial plates.

Sonnenuhr

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 23:27

These .xls files take spreadsheets to a new level, allowing one to draw sundials with amazing graphics.

Note: Requires MS Excel or compatible (macros must be enabled).

Shadows

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 23:27

Have you ever tried to build a sundial? This program lets you choose among many different types of sundial, does the calculations and prints the plans according to the size you specify.

Available in three versions (the first is freeware, the other two require you to buy a license to unlock certain functions).

Shadows is the basic level and is freeware. It can be used by everyone for personal needs or commercial activity. It comes with a complete set of functions and a full documentation.

R.S.A. - Relógio de Sol Analêmico

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 23:27

This is a software that makes the necessary calculations for the construction of a Analemic Sundial. Besides making the calculations, the software still possesses a section with theoretical contents.

This type of Sundial presents a good precision, because it is made being taken into account the Latitude of the place where the Clock is located, besides possessing an adjustment for Gnomon, object that makes an appointment, where his positioning will depend on the time of the year.

L'équation du temps

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 23:26

Lets you know the exact value of the equation of time* for any day of the year.

* The difference between mean and apparent time, or between the time of day indicated by the Sun and that by a clock.

Astronomica

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 23:24

WinAstronomica generates sky maps at any time, from anywhere on Earth. The maps show all the planets and stars visible to the naked eye, as well as some galaxies and nebulas, the Ecliptic, meteor showers and the Milky Way.

Constellations are drawn in their traditional form, and a table lists the visible objects. Win/MacAstronomica also features an Orrery that simulates the solar system, a sundial/moon dial, and a lot more. The interface is very elegant and easy to use. And finally, WinAstronomica lets you print customized sky maps.

Requires: Mac OS X 10.2 or later

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