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Resources currently sorted by: Title (Z-A) Wolfgang Stricklings software corner | | Description: | Wolfgang Stricklings offers a bunch of small free programs of astronomical interest able to run in Windows 3.1 and above.
Special notice goes to AstroWin, an app that computes ephemerides (twilight, Jupiter and Saturn satellites etc...)
| | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 08-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 417 | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
 Visual Spec | | Description: | Visual Spec is a software designed for amateurs to process spectral images. It provides a set of functions dedicated to Spectral analysis and allows the amateur to extract scientific measurements from spectral images.
Features:
- Calibration and correction functions. Wavelenght calibration is used to allow spectra comparison and lines identification with better accuracy. It is the basic spectral processings which enable most of the spectral measurements and functions.
- Spectral lines identification toolbox. Visual Spec includes several library which help for line identifaction or spectral type comparison.
- Multiples formats for data exportation. Once analysis is done, results can be exported in different file format: text file, graphic image in .bmp format, list in X,Y colums like the .dat format.
Spectroscopy is a technic which brings you up above the traditional imaging technic. Once the spectrum has been acquired, you may ask yourself: what can I do then ? Visual Spec will assist you in every step, with adequate tools, user-friendly functions and database with more than 5000 atomic lines referenced and a library of about 130 different spectral types... | | | Version: | 3.0.6 | | Filesize: | 7.15 MB | | Added on: | 04-May-2004 | | Downloads: | 304 | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
 The Making of The Second Guide Star Catalog  | | Description: | CD-ROM, available for download. This is a project that attempts to explains the substance, uses and complex methods adopted to produce the GSC-II catalog via a multimedia interactive interface. The content ranges from pretty pictures, through simple graphical descriptions to complex professional articles. It is aimed at a technically sophisticated level though does not require previous knowledge of Astronomy.
Check the homepage to read the credits.
Note: This is a bulky download. The file size given bellow is an approximate value. | | | Filesize: | 186.92 MB | | Added on: | 04-Aug-2004 | | Downloads: | 668 | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| The Hubble Image Collection | | Description: | This CD-ROM, available for download, contains 130 of the best images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The images are available in jpeg and tiff formats in optimal resolution.
Correct credits are available under "More info"(needs access to WWW).
The Hubble Space Telescope project is an international cooperation between ESA and NASA
Credit: Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre: Lars Lindberg Christensen & Martin Kornmesser."
Note: This is a bulky download. The file size given bellow is an approximate value. | | | Version: | 3.0 | | Filesize: | 503.54 MB | | Added on: | 04-Aug-2004 | | Downloads: | 1381 | | Rating: | 9.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
| Sun Spotter (Windows) | | Description: | Sun Spotter is a simple tool for grabbing the latest white-light image of the Sun, taken from the SOHO web site. The image corresponds to the sort of view you would see using a telescope equipped with a standard solar filter. Some brief notes are included to explain what it is you're looking at. Intended for amateur astronomers and teachers/students interested in the Sun. | | | Version: | 1 | | Filesize: | 728.00 Kb | | Added on: | 03-Jan-2006 | | Downloads: | 534 | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Spica | | Description: | Several features: celestial charts in several modes of projection; ephemeris, planetary conjunctions graphics, almanac like reports (a sort of "this week's planet roundup"), Saturn's rings and Jovian moons status graphics et cetera...
| | | Version: | 1.3 | | Filesize: | 1.27 MB | | Added on: | 03-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 346 | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Solex | | Description: | The name comes from ?SOLar system integration by a fast EXtrapolation method?, and, indeed, SOLEX computes the positions of solar system bodies (planets, asteroids and comets) by a method which is entirely based on the numerical integration of the Newton equation of motion.
Two celestial mechanics programs based on numerical integration are contained in the download package, which are both very friendly and easy to use. Solex v 8.5 computes high precision ephemerides and osculating elements over the time span -5000 +5000, closely matching the JPL DE406 ephemerides, but the integration can reliably be extended to a range 10-100 times wider. Libraries of asteroids (up to 64K bodies), comets and stars (up to 1M stars) are included. Data can also be read from custom files containing either positions and velocities or osculating elements, so that new bodies (including Earth's satellites) can easily be handled. Up to 4000 bodies can be simultaneouly loaded, and an automated search for close approaches, eclipses or occultations can be made. Text (screen or file) and graphic output are switchable, making the program a flexible interactive planetarium and N-body orbit simulator. Realistic sky views can be displayed both statically and dynamically, virtually from any place in the solar system and pointing to any fixed direction or to any moving object. The program is at the same time simple to use and powerful in its performances. It can just give aesthetic pleasure and help to identify sky objects, or it can be used by an experienced researcher to investigate aspects of the solar system dynamics such as long-term change of orbital elements, impact probabilities and chaotic motion.
FindOrb v5.3 is a program for orbit determination. The program inputs observational data of a solar system body or an Earth's satellite and outputs the best fitting starting positions and velocities (and classical orbital elements). Non-gravitational parameters for comets (Ai coefficients) or satellites (drag coefficient) can also be optimized. The computed starting vectors can be propagated to any other epoch and can be imported by Solex v8.5.
Both programs are suitable for amatorial as well as for professional use. Extended documentation is given as RTF files." | | | Version: | 8.5 | | Filesize: | 2.86 MB | | Added on: | 26-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 291 | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Solar Kingdom | | Description: | Presented has a «space simulator and encyclopedia», the Solar Kingdom demo is 15.8MB and includes a sample of what is on offer in the full product. The simulator demo includes the Moon, Earth and the Sun. The encyclopedia demo includes most of the Sun section and the introduction pages for the Earth and Moon.
| | | Filesize: | 15.26 MB | | Added on: | 26-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 332 | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Planisphere | | Description: | A program which exports to .PDF and lets you print a planisphere (a couple of sheets of paper very easy to assemble) appropriate for you latitude. The constellation lines are editable with an additional Constellation Editor.
You know you can buy a planisphere at most bookstores, but if you want a planisphere for another latitude, it can be problem. This program solves this. You can set latitude in a wide range (25-80° North or South) and display appropriate sky area on monitor, but, of course, also print it out. If, for instance, you are from north or central Europe and plan to spend holidays in southern Europe, with a planisphere you can recognize constelations, which aren't available at your higher latitude. If you have appropriate tools (like Adobe Illustrator), you can easy edit PDF output too.
Planispheres are a must for people starting to familiarize with the night sky as well.
Although the program is freeware, if you like it, you can support its next development by sending some money via MoneyBookers (check the homepage for the details). Please give this idea some serious consideration!
Note: The screenshot (as always, click to see it enlarged) shows the plans reduced in size. Also, colours can be inverted so you will save ink and have a white background with black stars, constellations and indications... | | | Version: | 2.0 | | Filesize: | 1.91 MB | | Added on: | 28-Apr-2004 | | Downloads: | 867 | | Rating: | 1.8 (2 Votes) | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
| ORSA (Windows) | | Description: | Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (ORSA) is a framework for Celestial mechanics computations. Asteriods, comets, solar and extra-solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated and analyzed.
This is the Windows version; Linux, MacOSX and sourceTarball also available for download.
Note: the screen shot to your right is from the Linux version. | | | Version: | 0.7.0 | | Filesize: | 3.29 MB | | Added on: | 28-Feb-2005 | | Downloads: | 707 | | Category: | Windows / Miscellaneous | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
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