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  Tiempo Astronómico 
Description: Shows Universal Time, Local Time, Decimal Date in VSNET format (aaaammdd.ddd), decimal year and Julian day. The user can input any of these and convert to another. Night vision mode supported.
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Version: 2.9.7
Filesize: 29.30 Kb
Added on: 14-Mar-2006
Downloads: 386
Category: Windows / Time
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  Sun Times  Popular
Description: Designed to be a map-based viewer showing both sunrise/sunset times and whether it's night or day at various worldwide locations. It also allows you view the movement of the Sun and Moon and major planets from different places on Earth. Sun Times allows investigation of the daily, monthly and yearly cycles of the Earth and Solar System, for example, it shows how sunset and sunrise times vary between different places at different times of the year.

Help for Sun Times aims to explain some of the factors which affect sunrise and sunset times. Includes a database of 3,500 worldwide locations (with latitude, longitude, populations and timezones).

Some of the features:

  • View the Sun's compass bearing, angle above the horizon, and the colour of the sky during twilight
  • Watch twilight move across maps of the World, Europe and North America
  • Plot and animate a flight itinerary showing the effect of flying on observed sunrise and sunset times.
  • View information about locations around the world where the sun is currently rising or setting
  • Zoom in on the main world map to create a custom map
  • Find and animate Solar eclipses from different locations on Earth
  • Add and edit the Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time Rules of locations
  • Produce a yearbook of sunrise and sunset times for a specific location
  • View Dawn and Dusk times
  • View how the total "top of atmosphere" solar radiation varies according to time of year and location
  • Calculate planetary positions and distances from Earth
  • Animate the path of the Sun, Moon and major planets across the sky relative to an observer's horizon
  • Animate the path of the major planets in their orbits around the Sun
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Version: 5.0
Filesize: 7.63 MB
Added on: 10-Jan-2006
Downloads: 743
Rating:8.5 (2 Votes)
Category: Windows / Time
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  Satk 
Description: Satk (Satellite Assisted Time Keeper) is a software which displays accurate information of Universal Time & Positions (longitude, latitude) by utilizing a GPS receiver via RS-232C serial port. It is able to synchronize the internal clocks of computers with the time from the GPS receiver.
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Filesize: 390.62 Kb
Added on: 14-June-2004
Downloads: 330
Category: Windows / Time
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  Calendrier perpétuel  Popular
Description: Perpetual calendar, whose features include:
  • Calculation of the specific celebration days of the Christian (both of Catholicism and of the Orthodox church), Judaic and Muslim religions.
  • Plotting detailed tables with the Jewish, Muslim and Pataphysic calendars.
  • Showing the catholic saints celebrated in each day of the year.
  • Calculating the Moon phases.
  • Calculating the rise and set times of the Sun for any location on Earth.
    Most notably, this program also includes a specific module for converting the dates in 23 different calendars.

    Includes an extensive HTML help file explaining the different calendars in historical perspective.

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    Version: 3.0
    Filesize: 578.75 Kb
    Added on: 09-Mar-2004
    Downloads: 830
    Rating:10.0 (1 Vote)
    Category: Windows / Time
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      Mini-sunclock  Popular
    Description: Small utility that plots in real time a choice of 14 miniaturized Earth maps in two dimensions, including the progression of the sun lighten area and the longitude the Sun is currently transiting.

    It is also capable of synchronizing your PC internal clock using the NTP protocol over the Internet.

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    Version: 0.9.7
    Filesize: 960.45 Kb
    Added on: 23-Oct-2003
    Downloads: 621
    Category: Windows / Time
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      Time Memo 
    Description: Time Memo is a software to periodically control the time offset between your computer and a NTP server and eventually adjust the computer clock.

    As all the information are logged to a file it is easy to find afterward the correction to apply to your observations as well as the error box.

    It can run as a daemon.

    This is the Windows version. A Linux version is also available

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    Filesize: 244.61 Kb
    Added on: 23-Sep-2003
    Downloads: 445
    Rating:7.0 (1 Vote)
    Category: Windows / Time
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      Altair  Popular
    Description: Altair is an astronomy calculator for Windows. Altair calculates Local Sidereal Time, Julian Date, Universal Time, RA/DEC to Alt/Az and Alt/Az to RA/DEC

    Includes builtin object and location databases. Prints the results. Allows any date between 1900 and 2100.

     

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    Filesize: 4.13 MB
    Added on: 16-Aug-2003
    Downloads: 698
    Category: Windows / Time
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      Astronomer's Digital Clock (ADC)  Popular
    Description: Great tool, geared to time counting, with a good set of features: «Date is displayed in scientific format for local date UTC date and Julian Date for those AAVSO observations. Time is displayed in local, UTC, Greenwich Sidereal (GST) and Local Sidereal (LST) formats. ADC also includes three alarm clocks: LST, local time and UTC; a SPLENDID stop watch function available for timing events such as an eclipse or astrophotography. Finally an Elapsed Time Calculator is available; copy times to the clipboard and they will be available to paste into your favorite word processor or publishing software for your observers log.»
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    Version: 3.3.2
    Filesize: 2.73 MB
    Added on: 03-Aug-2003
    Downloads: 858
    Rating:8.0 (1 Vote)
    Category: Windows / Time
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      World Time  Popular
    Description: Program entirely devoted to time counting. Displays a configurable number of clocks with current time in selected locations worldwide (database including thousands of cities and respective time zones and daylight saving time rules); plots a world map (allowing to zoom in and out and to choose among three types of projection) with the progression of the sunlit face of the Earth and other utilities; permits automatic synchronisation of the computer's internal clock with atomic clock servers, through internet; shows a table of astronomical ephemerides (Sun, Moon, day length etc...); includes several tools to make time calculations easy (days, hours and seconds since or until a particular event, time zone discrepancies etc...); offers a chronograph; sounds chimes on the hour and enables alarms.

    Useful, educational and fun to use.

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    Version: 600941
    Filesize: 3.06 MB
    Added on: 03-Aug-2003
    Downloads: 1794
    Rating:8.3 (7 Votes)
    Category: Windows / Time
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