 Accurate Times  | | Description: | Accurate Times is the official program adopted by the Jordanian Ministry of Islamic Affairs to calculate the prayer times in Jordan. The program runs under Windows, and it is written by Mohammad Odeh, a member of the Jordanian Astronomical Society (JAS), and the Vice-President of Crescents' Observation and Mawaqeet Committee, of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS).
Accurate Times calculates the following astronomical events:
- Islamic prayer times (Fajer, Shuroq, Dhohur, Aser, Maghreb, and Isha).
- Sun Times (Beginning and End of Twilight, Sunrise, Sunset, and Sun Transit).
- Moon Times (Moon rise, Moon transit, and Moon set).
- Moon phases (Geocentric or Topocentric).
- Crescent Visibility for both; New and Old crescents.
- Calculations for Sun and Moon Ephemeris.
- Qiblah direction (Direction to Ka'bah in Mecca).
- Qiblah time (The time at which the Sun or Sun's shadow is at the Qiblah direction).
- Hejric-Gregorian conversion.
- The prayer call (Athan) launches automatically when it is the time of the prayer.
- A reminder is heard few minutes before the next prayer.
| | | Version: | 5.1.9 | | Filesize: | 3.81 MB | | Added on: | 29-Dec-2005 | | Downloads: | 527 | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Alcyone Ephemeris | | Description: | Alcyone Ephemeris is an accurate and fast astronomical ephemeris calculator covering the period 3000 BC to AD 3000. It calculates heliocentric, geocentric, and topocentric positions of the Sun (Earth), Moon, planets, minor planets, comets and fixed stars in ecliptical, equatorial, and horizontal coordinates (including angular differences between two bodies), with optional corrections for parallax and refraction; rectangular coordinates, velocity, apparent diameter, magnitude, phase, lunar libration, orbital elements, differences for all of these, and more. In addition Alcyone Ephemeris offers a wealth of functionality: star chart generation, 3D-visualization of heliocentric and planetocentric orbits, plotting ephemeris data (as a function of time or in a parametric plot), searching for specific values, data export (HTML, Excel, Text, CSV, XML), printing, and (PDF-/HTML-/RTF-) report generation. Access to the complete Bright Star Catalogue, calendar conversion, and an astronomical event calculator are available.
The ephemeris calculation is based upon Steve Moshier's analytical ephemeris using trigonometric expansions for the earth and planets and the lunar ephemeris ELP2000-85 of Chapront-Touzé and Chapront for the moon, both adjusted to Jet Propulsion Laboratory's DE404. There are further adjustments in Alcyone Ephemeris, some optional, to JPL's more recent DE406, the most accurate long-term ephemeris. Alcyone Ephemeris is fast. With an Athlon XP 2000+ processor, 100 calculations of geocentric longitude, latitude, and distance for the sun, moon, and all planets take about 2 seconds.
A comprehensive documentation includes tabular and graphic comparisons of calculations with HORIZONS Ephemeris generator . Alcyone Ephemeris is shareware and runs under Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista.
| | | Version: | 3.2 | | Filesize: | 51.36 MB | | Added on: | 09-Feb-2008 | | Downloads: | 1507 | | Rating: | 9.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
 Almanac | | Description: | It allows the creation of a complete astronomical almanac for a selected location. Calculates the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and asteroids. It determines the instants of the more important celestial phenomena and particularly of the eclipses of the Sun and Moon for any given locations. Automatically draws charts of the apparent paths of asteroids, comets and planets, and of the solar eclipses paths over the Earth.
Available in two versions: Light (the calculations for the positions of the celestial bodies are performed to relatively low precision (0" .1 for the planets, the Sun and the Moon for the actual date. The database of the asteroids contains 1000 objects only) and Complete (calculations for the positions of the greatest bodies of the solar system performed to the maximum precision. The database of the asteroids contains over 100.000 objects, while that of the stars reaches mag. 10 - 250.000 stars can be displayed).
To install the Complete version, you must first install the "light" one, then upgrade it with extra files. | | | Version: | 3 | | Filesize: | 2.86 MB | | Added on: | 03-Dec-2003 | | Downloads: | 784 | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
 AstroExcel | | Description: | Surprising MS Excel spreadsheets (including cool graphics) for miscellaneous astro calculations.
Includes a full featured Planetarium - yes, in .xls format and with all expected features: sky simulation; 3D solar system orrey, extended ephemerides tables for the planets and Moon (including a graph comparing it's apparent size etc...), graph depicting the visibility of the planets along a 24 hour period, ephemerides for all the Messier objects, Sun ephemerides with graphs, Jovian system simulation graphs, graphical simulation of Saturn, it's rings and satellites, day and night progression over an Earth map and a lot of miscellaneous calculations, including on the telescope optical parameters and CCD sides.
Note: requires MS Excel or compatible (the macros must be enabled).
| | | Version: | 1.e | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 29-Dec-2005 | | Downloads: | 1447 | | Rating: | 8.3 (2 Votes) | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
| Astronomic Clock | | Description: | ASTRONOM provides a host of data on the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets seen from anywhere on Earth. Information, plotted on an altazimuth chart and accompanying tables, includes local sunrise and sunset times, solar disk size, Earth-Sun distance, Moon phases, equatorial coordinates, a planetary ephemeris, and an eclipse locator. The positions of the planets may be changed in steps of a second, minute, hour, day, week, and month, or follow the system clock.
Attractive graphics. Well integrated functions.
| | | Version: | 9.2 | | Filesize: | 1.05 MB | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 753 | | Rating: | 9.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Astronomy by calculations 3 | | Description: | «This software will give you a lot of astronomics informations :
4 planetariums with more than 8600 stars, 10000 asteroids, 10000 stellars objects, 100 comets
Position of planets, star, comets, asteroids, stellars objects, Moon, Sun
Date and type of lunar and solar eclipses
Date about planetaries phenomenas (conjunction, opposition)
Date of perigees, apogees, perihelions et aphelions
Line of Jovians moons
2 jovariums (Jovian moons)
variation curve from 30 to 9999 days about:
magnitude, illumination, distance to the Earth, to the Sun, elongation and diameter of planets
magnitude, distance to the Earth, to the Sun and elongation of comets and asteroids.
illumination, distance to the Earth, elongation and diameter of Moon
diameter of Sun
l'équation du temps
Possibility to save (gif, jpeg and bmp format) all planetariums, jovariums and variations curves.»
| | | Filesize: | 2.00 MB | | Added on: | 07-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 516 | | Rating: | 6.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Astronomy Laboratory for Windows | | Description: | Once superb program. Generates a bunch of different astronomical animations - including solar and lunar eclipses, lunar and planetary occultations, planetary and jovian satellites transits, orrery et cetera...
Also produces almanacs and several types of graphics. | | | Version: | 2.03 | | Filesize: | 488.28 Kb | | Added on: | 03-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 518 | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Dark Skies | | Description: | Application created to help determine the times of the year when the night sky will be totally dark and to show the results in a graphical fashion.
Plots the times of sunset and sunrise for the entire year or any given month for any location, the end of twilight in the evening and the start of twilight in the morning. | | | Version: | 1.14 | | Filesize: | 146.00 Kb | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 562 | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Dr. Regener Sun-Moon-Calendar | | Description: | Calculates the sets, rises and phases of the sun and moon. It covers almost 2000 locations in 96 countries. The program includes signs of the Zodiac, Saint's days, and days of Ecclesiastical year, the moon in the Ecliptic, a graphical overview of the moons brightness, and time zone information and comparison.
Other features include absolute local accuracy by management of own locations, pretty daily graphic, easy navigation and additional search functions, scientific calculation methods that involve even the influence of the moons distance, and the ability to print your own professional reports - monthly list, yearly overview etc | | | Version: | 7.0 | | Filesize: | 2.74 MB | | Added on: | 04-Jan-2004 | | Downloads: | 420 | | Rating: | 8.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| EfeCalc | | Description: | EfeCalc is a Windows program that produces highly accurate astronomical ephemeris, including: rise, transit and set times for the Sun, Moon and Planets and ecliptic, equatorial and horizontal coordinates; mean and apparent positions of the Stars; lunar and solar eclipses (with maps); Moon phases and age, perigee and apogee; elements for the observation of solar physics; equation of time (with graphic); parallax of the Moon, stars and planets; illuminated fraction of the planets; calendar events (Easter, seasons, Chinese New Year etc..); extensive database of locations around the world; database with more than 400 stars et cetera.
If you want to learn more about Astronomy, this program also has an
on-line extensive Help.
It exports the results to .html, .csv (spreadsheet) and .txt formats.
Version 2 also includes an on-line automatic update feature and a basic sky simulator.
The title/name above links to the English installation file. You can get the Portuguese version here. | | | Version: | 2.2 | | Filesize: | 2.67 MB | | Added on: | 03-Sep-2003 | | Downloads: | 2450 | | Rating: | 7.2 (6 Votes) | | Category: | Windows / Ephemerides - General Purpose | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (4) | |
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