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Home Page: www.riti.com/prodserv_lunarmappro.htm RITI
Version Release Date: 4/06/04
Shareware version: No - Commercial only
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Details: Lunar Map Pro is a complete and comprehensive lunar mapping software program for serious amateur astronomers, astronomy students, and lunar observers. Designed and built on a (GIS) Geographic Information System, providing pin-point navigational accuracy, Lunar Map Pro offers high-resolution maps, designed to meet the most demanding requirements of both armchair and observational astronomers. The lunar maps are corrected in real-time, to let you accurately visualize the phases with full libration (tilting) correction. With a database of more than 7,600 features, Lunar Map Pro has the most comprehensive lunar library to date. Maps can be customized to match the view through your own telescope and eyepieces.
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Home Page: home.plex.nl/~gottm/doa/ Eric Limburg
Version Release Date: 22/02/02
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: low31pro.zip Size: 14 MB
Details: The Lunar Occultation Workbench (LOW) is the world's most accurate, versatile and popular Windows-based program (even though they do say so themselves) for the computation of predictions of occultations by the Moon of some 53920 stars and the 8 major planets. Freeware for Win 3.1/Win95/NT.
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Home Page: www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhase/ Gary Nugent
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: lp262_Setup.exe Size: 1.99 MB
Details: Displays the current lunar phase (in realtime), the major lunar phases for the selected month and year, solar and lunar rise, transit and set times, start and end times for Civil, Nautical and Astronomical twilight. In addition it calculates and displays the positions of the Sun and Moon and displays a range of other lunar data and lunar eclipse information. LunarPhasePro is also now available.
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Home Page: www.nightskyobserver.com/LunarPhaseCD/ Gary Nugent
Version Release Date: 12/02/04
Shareware version: No - Commercial only
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Details: LunarPhase Pro is a utility for Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP which provides a range of information on the Moon and, to a lesser degree, the Sun, graphically displaying the current phase of the moon (in real time). It uses the user's geographic location, Timezone and Daylight Savings Time (set on the Configuration screen) for its calculations, so these must be set up correctly. All times displayed (and printed) are in local time.
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Home Page: www.etlon.com/MacStronomy/FeaturesA.html Etlon Software
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: MacStronomyDemo.st.hqx Size: 472 KB
Details: MacStronomy displays maps of the stars and planets as they appear in the sky for any date, time, and location on the earth that you choose. So, you will know what that bright object is in the west just after the sun goes down, or when this year you can catch a glimpse of Mercury.
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Home Page: skyandtelescope.com/resources/software/programs/mp201.zip Leandro Rios
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Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: mp201.zip Size: 3.0 MB
Details: Leandro Rios, an amateur astronomer in Argentina, created this handy utility for Mars watchers. Rios based his freeware program which displays the central meridian and angular size of the red planet for any date and time on the algorithm used in MARS.BAS (in the S&T Basic Programs listings). The program is a 32-bit application (Windows 95 and higher). When you run Mars Previewer, make sure you enter dates in DD/MM/YYYY format and set your time zone relative to Greenwich Mean Time (positive numbers to the west, negative to the east). If you have any questions about the program, you can contact Rios by e-mail at leandror@iname.net.
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Home Page: www.umark.de/maxclock/maxclock_main_e.html Udo Mark
Version Release Date: January 2006
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: maxcl16.zip/maxcl32.zip Size: 200 KB/ 500 KB
Details: MAXCLOCK is a high-precision digital astronomical clock. It displays the following data on your computer screen: Civil date & time, day number in the year; Julian date and modified Julian date both in terms of ephemeris time ET (TT) and universal time UT1; Delta-T, the difference between ET and UT1; Mean solar time, apparent solar time, equation of time; Mean sidereal time, apparent sidereal time, equation of equinoxes; Geocentric ecliptical and equatorial coordinates of sun and moon; Constellation and zodiac sign for the sun; Constellation, zodiac sign, phase, appearance, and illuminated fraction of the moon; Elongation between sun and moon; Earth distance to sun and moon.
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Home Page: www.cyanogen.com/ Diffraction Limited
Version Release Date: 3/05/04
Shareware version: No - Commercial only
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Details: MaxIm DL lets you take control of your CCD imaging. Forget intimidating manuals and complex commands, powerful image processing capabilities are now within your reach. Dozens of processing features are supported. Instantly adjust brightness and contrast just by moving the mouse. Use the latest imaging techniques including DDP, LRGB, LCMY, mosaics, and much more!
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Home Page: www.cyanogen.com/products/maxpt_main.htm Diffraction Limited
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Details: A frequent problem with GOTO telescopes is that they retain pointing accuracy only over a small area of the sky where you're working. Various mechanical errors conspire to degrade the accuracy as you travel away from the initial "sync" position. As a result, your intended target is often entirely out of the field of view of your CCD camera. MaxPoint is designed to solve this problem through mount modelling. When you first set up MaxPoint, it creates a model of your telescope mount, including any polar axis misalignment, offsets, and mechanical flexure. Once this is done, MaxPoint automatically corrects your telescope position to ensure it is always on-target. With MaxPoint, even very low-cost GOTO mounts can routinely achieve a pointing accuracy of 1-2 arc-minutes over the whole sky!
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Home Page: www.willbell.com/software/megastar/index.htm Willmann-Bell
Version Release Date: 29/06/02
Shareware version: No - Commercial only
Filename: megademo.exe Size: 1.45 MB
Details: MegaStar was the first software to integrate the Hubble Guide Star Catalog, and combine it with a massive deep sky database of 84,000 objects. We were the first to implement the "eyepiece view," with deepsky objects plotted to scale and galaxies rotated to show position angle. MegaStar set a new standard back then, and still remains the premier charting program for data accuracy, functionality and user-friendliness.
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Home Page: pages.infinit.net/merid/index.html
Version Release Date: 16/07/00
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: meri45.exe Size: 1.66 MB
Details: Meridian is very useful to plan or verify the observations of planetary surfaces and of natural satellites for some planets. Meridian is very user-friendly; the windows presenting planets are sizable. You can see the same object at different dates/hours, print the content of window, list the lunar phases for the current month and many other useful information.
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Home Page: www.astrosoftware.net/ Aggiungi Astrosoftware
Version Release Date: 12/12/02
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: mess211.exe Size: 620 KB (plus data files 7.4 MB)
Details: It visualizes the images in high resolution of all the objects of Messier, together with the information related to the coordinates, dimensions, etc.. .Now generates finding charts.
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Home Page: members.tripod.com/~whuyss/ Luis Argüelles
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Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: disk1.zip - disk5.zip Size: 6 MB
Details: Logging observations is always a rewarding activity. It helps a lot to get experience in this hobby and it's very nice to read your own annotations when bad weather doesn't allow you to use your scope. I've written a FREE simple to use program in order to store your observations for Messier objects. You only need to "fill in the blanks" to really enjoy the system, because a lot of data is supplied. Each entry for the entire Messier catalogue contains: Messier id. Number, Constellation where the Messier object is located, Short description of the Messier object, Celestial coordinates in R.A. and declination, Magnitude, Dimensions in minutes of arc, Distance from Earth in K-light years, Detailed information about each object, and Gorgeous image of the object.
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Home Page: www.sira.it/msb/eng.htm Fabio Cavicchio
Version Release Date: 11/05/98
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: mpla_eng.zip Size: 123 KB
Details: Realistic planetarium for MS-DOS. Teaches constellations and more. Freeware , english version 1.0 11/5/1998
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Home Page: www.gonmad.demon.co.uk/warez/mjd.html Dan Gibson
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: MJD_42.zip Size: 1.06 MB
Details: MJD Calculator is a simple, GUI based tool for converting between Gregorian (everyday) date and time format, Modified Julian Date and time, and unix date and time.
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Home Page: www.starlight.demon.co.uk/mooncalc/ Monzur Ahmed
Version Release Date: 10/10/01
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: moonc60.zip Size: 508 KB
Details: MoonCalc is a DOS program which provides information relating to the position, age, phase, orientation, appearance and visibility of the moon for any given date, time and location on earth. It also provides the time and direction of moonrise and moonset, interval between sunset and moonset, interval between sunrise and moonrise, date/time of astronomical new moon (conjunction) and full moon and predicts the likelihood of visualising the new moon from a particular location.
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Home Page: balder.prohosting.com/stouch/MOONCLOCK.html Glenn Schneider sofTouch APpLications
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: MOONCLOCK_220a_PPC.sea.hqx Size:
Details: MOONCLOCK produces a continually updating, real-time graphical representation on the visual aspect of the moon. The lunar aspect may be computed geocentrically, or topocentrically, for the current epoch, or for any time and date.
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Home Page: www.locutuscodeware.com/moonphas.htm Robomagic
Version Release Date: 1/02/02
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: mpsetup.exe Size: 502 KB
Details: MoonPhase displays the current phase of the moon on the tray notification area of the system taskbar. Requires Windows 95 and up, or Windows NT4 or up.
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Home Page: www.iserv.net/~bsidell/moonrise.htm Bruce P. Sidell
Version Release Date: 28/04/02
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: moonrise.zip Size: 214 KB
Details: Moonrise is a very simple to use, yet very accurate program. If you put it in your Startup folder, it will greet you everyday with the day's sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and twilight times. You can easily see the next series of moon phases, and see a graphic of the current phase. You can find the same information for tomorrow, next week, forty years from now, or the day you were born with a few clicks of the mouse.
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Home Page: www.microprojects.ca/MPjEquinoxPage.html Microprojects
Version Release Date: 4/01/04
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: Eqx41Install.sit Size: 3.4 MB
Details: EquinoX is an easy to use shareware astronomy programme for Apple Macintosh computers. It offers many features designed for learning about astronomy as well as for more advanced use by experienced observers. EquinoX allows you to design your own constellations, modify the database, choose different colors, run your webcam and it can even control your telescope with voice commands. (This is an update to MPj Astro)
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Home Page: www.relativedata.com/mystars/ Relative Data
Version Release Date: 1/04/00
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: myst3227.zip Size: 1.5 MB
Details: MyStars! is a scientifically rigorous, yet fun and educational Windows astronomy program that simulates the sky and helps you visualize and locate the positions of stars, planets, comets, minor planets, and Messier (M) objects from any location on earth and any date/time from BC 2000 to AD 6000. The registered version also shows the moon with phases, solar and lunar eclipses, and the 118,000 HipparcosStar Catalogue. Striving constantly to balance visual realism, scientific accuracy, and the imagination; we hope you find MyStars! of interest.
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Home Page: www.rainman-soft.com/ Rainman Software
Version Release Date: 21/10/00
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: ngc623b6.exe Size: 5 MB
Details: Plan, Plot, Chart and Log your observations using over 200,000 objects and 70 Million stars!
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Home Page: www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/users/rwichman/Nightfall.html Rainer Wichmann
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: nightfall-1.34.tar.gz Size: 899 KB
Details: Nightfall is an astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system. It is, however, not able to fry your breakfast egg on your harddisk. Nightfall comes with a user guide, and a set of observational data for several eclipsing binary star systems.
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Home Page: www.kaweah.com/Products/NightSky/ Kaweah Software
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: NightSky-32.hqx Size: 1.0 MB
Details: NightSky is a planetarium for the MacOS. Through its windows you can : See what the sky would look like at any time of night, or any time of year; See what the sky looks like at any latitude (north and south); See what the sky looks like from other parts of the Milky Way galaxy; View up to over 50,000 stars (if you acquire a big enough data file); See where the sun, moon, planets, galaxies and other deep space objects are; View all the constellations, some of which I've exercised some poetic license with; Add, edit, and remove stars and constellations; Save any sky view as a PICT or PNG file; Print any sky view in color or black and white.
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Home Page: www.beachware.com/
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: nightsea.exe & NightSkySampler.sit.hqx Size: 1.9 MB
Details: CD-ROM for Windows 3.1, 95 & 98 and Macintosh A wonderful introductory astronomy learning experience on CD-ROM. Constellations, comets, stars, planets, meteors, galaxies, the moon and more are yours to explore in this CD! Watch animations and hear narratives about how the moon orbits the earth and many other topics. Ages 8 - adult.
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Home Page: www.procyon-sys.com/Observer4.html Procyon
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: ObsBasic.hqx Size: 4.1 MB
Details: Observer is the most useful Macintosh astronomy software available, specifically tailored with the Amateur Astronomer in mind. It's much more than a quality planetarium sky simulation program - it provides useful tools to streamline your observing sessions, from the planning stages up to and including your actual observing, astrophotography and CCD imaging efforts in the field. With the latest version, we've entered the future; you can now command Observer and your telescope verbally, and it speaks back to you!!
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Home Page: www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/occult3.htm Dave Herald
Version Release Date: 27/12/03
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: Various files Size: 7.5 MB
Details: Occult is a comprehensive package of occultation-related calculations. The program is issued as Freeware under the auspices of IOTA, with the aim of encouraging observations of occultation phenomena.
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Home Page: openuniverse.sourceforge.net/ Raúl Alonso
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: openuniverse-1.Obeta3.tar.gz & oubeta3.exe Size: 4.5 MB
Details: OpenUniverse (OU) was formely known as Solar System Simulator (Ssystem). Strictly speaking it's a piece of software, simulating the Solar System's bodies in 3D on your Windows or Linux PC (will work in most *NIX's as well). In difference to quite a few other programs it does so in realtime. Meaning you can view all the planets, moons and spaceships move along their paths, trace them, follow them, orbit them and even control them (time and spaceship contol). And you won't have to fight your way through hordes of green, slimey and one-eyed aliens for that ;-)
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Home Page: www.efn.org/~mbartels/tm/software.html Max E. Klinger
Version Release Date: 25/05/92
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: optimax.zip Size: 195 KB
Details: Optimax - The Newtonian Telescope Designer's Program for Selecting and Evaluating Optical Component Such as Mirrors, Diagonals, and Eyepieces. Optimax is a compiled program intended to assist amateur telescope makers and observers with the design and evaluation of their telescopes. Optimax is not a ray-tracing program and is not intended for use in the design of optical components such as mirrors and lenses. Rather, it is intended to assist amateur astronomers in selecting and evaluating optical components (mirrors and eyepieces) for a particular Newtonian telescope. The program can also be used by owners of all types of telescopes (refractors, catadioptircs) to evaluate eyepiece performance, fields of view, exit pupils, and magnification for particular telescope and eyepiece combinations.
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Home Page: www.ottisoft.com/orbit_x.htm
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: orbitx20.exe Size: 2.7 MB
Details: Physics educational software for high school and college students and teachers. May also be of interest to astronomy and physics hobbyists.With Orbit Xplorer orbit simulator you can do lab exercises in gravitational physics. Study elliptical orbits, double stars, escape velocity, Kepler's third law, Lagrange points, the three body problem and more.
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Home Page: www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html Martin Schweiger
Version Release Date: 19/04/02
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: orbiter020419_bas.zip Size: 3.9 MB
Details: ORBITER is a realistic space simulation using proper physics for the modelling of planetary motion, gravitational fields, free space and atmospheric flight etc. As such, it is more challenging to master than an arcade game - you should at least have some basic idea about mechanics and planetary motion to get the most from it.
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Home Page: virtualskysoft.de/asappsen.htm
Version Release Date: 11/06/02
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: ephtleva.zip Size: 3.1 MB
Details: Ephemeris Tool: one of the few professional ephemeris programs for the Windows surface. It is both a mighty astronomical data-center and a usefull spreadsheet. From Asteroid Database over Excel-Compatibility up to Variable Stars, from Jupiter moon events up to Occultations you find your observations. More than 100 free configurable ephemeris values can be computed easily, more than the biggest almanach could provide.
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Home Page: mywebpages.comcast.net/bondono2/astro.html Jeff Bondono
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: cosmoh24.zip Size: 131 KB
Details: A 3d tour of the nearest 2300 galaxies (version 2.4) lets you see and understand our place in the Universe. View the 2,368 nearest galaxies (data from the Nearby Galaxies Catalog, by Tully) in three dimensions. In addition to user-generated views and animations, the program comes with a pre-designed example of an animation which takes you on a completely annotated tour of the large scale structure of our corner of the Universe. Based on up-to-date respected data from the scientific community, this is an outstanding tool for students, teachers, amateur astronomers, or anyone interested in expanding your knowledge of where we all live.
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Home Page: www.haydenplanetarium.org/hp/vo/partiview/whatisparti.html Hayden Planetarium
Version Release Date: 21/02/03
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: partiview0.7.02-win.zip Size: 1.4 MB
Details: Partiview (Particle View) is a program that visualizes and animates three dimensional particle data. Within Partiview, you have the ability to navigate through 3-D data, as if you're flying. Partiview is not limited to particle data; it can display 2-D images as well as multiple 2-D polygons that can be built into 3-D surfaces.
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Home Page: www.skyhound.com/cs.html CapellaSoft
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Shareware version: No - Commercial only
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Details: PC-Sky is a classic which excels at displaying the night sky photo-realistically and naturally via its naked eye, binocular and telescope views. This program is beautiful, quick, and responsive. It is a must for anyone first learning their way about the night sky, yet useful to even the most advanced skyhound. PC-Sky comes on two diskettes and displays stars down to 15th magnitude in selected areas about the 204 most popular objects in the sky.
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Home Page: www.comsoft-telescope.com/ Comsoft
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Shareware version: No - Commercial only
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Details: PC-TCS is a Personal Computer based Telescope Control System designed for use with moderate to large permanently mounted astronomical telescopes. The software will run on all DOS and Windows 95/98 systems. Its primary duty is to control the telescope drive system and its related hardware.
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Home Page: www.elitalia.it/perseus/eng/home.html Filippo Riccio and Luigi Fontana ELItalia
Version Release Date: 19/05/04
Shareware version: No - Commercial only
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Details: Perseus is an astronomical simulation program for Windows. It's able to recreate the sky view as you would see it being in any time period and in any place, in Earth or Space. Perseus can represent a truly realistic sky, allowing animations too (both real-time and not). It's based on the most recent star databases, in order to give you access to an enormous amount of data, all easily manageable with a few clicks of your mouse. (a demo version is available)
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Home Page: www.planetariumgold.com/
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: PlanetariumTryout.exe Size: 3.9 MB
Details: With more functions and smooth user interface, Planetarium Gold included GSC data (about 100 Meg bytes of data) that provides 20 Million stars with NASA's scientific accuracy, plus astronomy dictionary, trivia for you to test your knowledge, animated calendar, constellations with hand painted graphics, even it come with a Stella scope for out-door activities. Perfect item for class room project. Users can observe the sky complete with starts, galaxies, comets, and nebula from any virtual location on the earth. Planetarium has dozens of well known locations pre-set for observation for the user to choose from.
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Home Page: www2.gsu.edu/~usgnrmx/maraj/products/prod01.html Maraj Inc
Version Release Date: 2/02/98
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: planetg.exe Size: 2.49 MB
Details: Planet Guide is an Astronomy tool that provides a brief amount of information for all the planets
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Home Page: www.alcyone.de/POrbits/english/ProgramPOrbits.htm
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: PO15.exe Size: 6.8 MB
Details: Planet's Orbits (for Windows 95/98/ME) is an accurate digital orrery with a wealth of funnctionality. Orbits uses time-dependent mean orbital elements for the calculation of planetary positions (except for Pluto). Good accuracy is thus obtained for the time range of +/- 4000 years. The most noteworthy functions are date specification (past, future), 3D orbital animation and custom zoom, orbits of 7000+ asteroids (by using their osculating elements, wich can be read from a database), and statistic and information windows.
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Home Page: www.alcyone.de/PVis/english/ProgramPVis.htm
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: pvis15.exe Size: 3.9 MB
Details: This program (for Windows 95/98/ME) presents a deceptively simple 3-color graph that tells, when a planet (or moon, sun) is visible from your location. The vertical axis marks the months of the selected year, with the horizontal axis marking the 24 hours of the day (in local time with or without consideration of Daylight Savings Time). The three colors create a contour map effect and identify when the selected object is visible, not visible, or "eclipsed" by the sun. A fixed crosshair identifies the current date and time. By moving the mouse over the graph area, the date and time, as well as the objects altitude, azimuth, and magnitude (or the phase of the moon if the moon is selected) are displayed. Times of solar and lunar eclipses are marked. Over 400 cities representing virtually every country are predefined, and it's easy to add your own location.
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Home Page: ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/galen_raben/planetwatch.html Galen Raben Raben Software
Version Release Date: 11/05/98
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: Plnwch22.exe Size: 673 KB
Details: PlanetWatch is a colorful, multimedia atlas of the solar system for Microsoft Windows. With PlanetWatch you can learn about each planet's motions, atmospheres, geology, and internal structure. Colorful photographs, animated maps, and data from Voyager, Galileo, and other space probes are combined in an informative and entertaining program.
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Home Page: www.poweragesky.com/ Gueorgui Dragandjikov
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: pass3.exe Size: 16.3 MB
Details: Power Age Sky Simulator is original astronomical software which gives you the ability to observe the sky on your computer. Even if you have other computer sky simulator software, you will be pleasantly surprised with what Power Age Sky Simulator offers you. Keeping in mind the beautiful interface and the successful construction of Power Age, it is of interest for more than just those people who deal with astronomy. This program is not made to be great, it's just made to be useful and to some extent, to be enjoyable. Power Age Sky Simulator is software which you will like no matter who are you and what you do.
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Home Page: www.astroccd.com/prism/index/index_us.htm
Version Release Date: 18/12/01
Shareware version: No - Commercial only
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Details: PRISM is a powerful and complete image processing/analysis, sky mapping, telescope and CCD camera control for Astronomical purposes. This Software is making the most of today's computers abilities running under Windows95/98/NT. It owns all the expected features that should have any advanced software tool for astronomers. It is one of the most efficient and advanced in its field to take great advantage of your CCD camera, and process images coming out of your telescope.
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Home Page: www.radiosky.com/rjpro3ishere.html Radio-Sky Publishing
Version Release Date: 19/01/02
Shareware version: Yes
Filename: rjpro3.zip Size: 2.7 MB
Details: If you really want to observe Jupiter's radio noise storms, this is a must have program. RJPro3 does just about everything you can imagine to help you plan and execute your Jupiter observations.
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Home Page: www.redshift.de/us/_main/index.htm Viva Astronomy
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Shareware version: No - Commercial only
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Details: An advanced astronomy simulator which allows users to view the universe from any point in the solar system and at any point in time between 4,000 BC and 10,000 AD. RedShift features an extensive catalogue of over 300,000 stars and deep sky objects. The software uses virtual reality techniques to display realistic 3D models of planets and their moons. The user can follow a planet on its journey through space, watch earth rise from the moon or experience a total eclipse of the sun.
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Home Page: aberrator.astronomy.net/registax/index.html Cor Berrevoets
Version Release Date: 22/09/03
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: registax_v2.1_update.exe Size: 462 KB
Details: Registax is a freeware tool for alignment, stacking and processing of BMP or AVI image sequences.
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Home Page: www.omegalab-atc.com/ Omega Lab
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Shareware version: Yes
Filename: atcr_eng_demo.exe Size: 5.2 MB
Details: With this program it is possible to perform some programmed watching sessions for the automatic research of the supernovae. Automatic aim of the objects, acquisition and saving of the images and the observed data. End of the session, parking of the telescope and computer programmed turning off.
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Home Page: www.debunker.com/astro/rtguipage.html Robert Sheaffer
Version Release Date: 15/09/03
Shareware version: Freeware
Filename: rtgui_10.zip Size: 343 KB
Details: RTGUI allows one to determine an object's position and visibility very quickly. It also allows one to select a sequence of objects according to magnitude, constellation, object type, or elevation, and observe each one rapidly. You can make observing notes on each object, with real-time data automatically saved in the observing log so you don't have to enter information already known to the program. RTGUI corrects the positions of objects in catalogs for precession, and also corrects their apparent position for atmospheric refraction. It contains a very accurate determination of local sidereal time. This information is updated continuously, yielding accurate real-time values for an object's altitude, azimuth, and for sidereal time, for as long as you wish. RTGUI is a real-time program, and is most valuable when it is used on a computer just a few steps away from your telescope. Even if you cannot take your computer to your observing site, RTGUI can be used in advance, to help plan the evening's observing.
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