Projects tagged ‘astronomy’

Celestia is an OpenGL-based 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32 that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. Visit over 100,000 stars, 100 solar system bodies, and all known extrasolar planets.

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets and nebulae, and has many other features including multiple panoramic landscapes, fog, light pollution simulation and a built-in ... [More] scripting engine. Stellarium comes with a star catalogue of about 600 thousand stars and it is possible to download extra catalogues with up to 210 million stars. Stellarium has multiple sky cultures - see the constellations from the traditions of Polynesian, Inuit, Navajo, Korean, Lakota, Egyptian and Chinese astronomers, as well as the traditional Western constellations. It is also possible to visit other planets in the solar system - see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan. [Less]

KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate simulation of the night sky, as seen from any location on Earth, on any date. The display includes 40,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, 2500 comets and asteroids, all 8 planets, and the Sun and Moon.

The ALMA Common Software (ACS) provides a software infrastructure common to all partners and consists of a documented collection of common patterns in and of components, which implement those patterns. The heart of ACS is an object model based on ... [More] Distributed Objects (DOs), implemented as CORBA objects. The teams responsible for the control system's development use DOs as the basis for components and devices such as an antenna mount control. ACS provides common CORBA-based services such as logging, error and alarm management, configuration database and lifecycle management. A code generator can create a Java Bean for each DO and programmers can write Java client applications by connecting those Beans with data-manipulation and visualization Beans. [Less]

Image stacking is a procedure that astrophotographers perform in order to extract a low-noise image from a sequence of photos of a certain sky object. Some preliminary operations are performed on images in order to compensate for image artifacts ... [More] generated by the atmosphere (e.g. blur, distortion, etc...); when all the images are perfectly aligned and sized the final image is computed by averaging. There is a number of existing applications for this procedure, but as far as we know none is written in Java™ and open source. pleiades will try to demonstrate that Java™ can be a profitable programming language for the amateur astrophotographer community too, also because it opens the door to easier distributed computing. [Less]

Gravit is a gravity simulator which runs under Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It's released under the GNU General Public License which makes it free. It uses Newtonian physics using the Barnes-Hut N-body algorithm. Although the main goal of Gravit is ... [More] to be as accurate as possible, it also creates beautiful looking gravity patterns. It records the history of each particle so it can animate and display a path of its travels. At any stage you can rotate your view in 3D and zoom in and out. Gravit uses OpenGL with Lua, SDL, SDL_ttf and SDL_image. [Less]

A python framework for managing the real-time operations of a distributed and heterogeneous platform of control and monitoring devices, such as a telescope and its associated instruments. Quick-start guide for users Quick-start guide for installers Quick-start guide for developers

Software for Moon observation and survey. Let you visualize the real Moon aspect at every time. Also help to study any lunar formations using feature database and pictures library.

PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent sky maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. Databases are included but you may use own data if you wish.

This project contains c++ libraries which were the core of the discontinued aips++ package. The build system has been fully re-written. casacore provides the following packages: casa components coordinates fits images lattices measures mirlib ms msfits msvis scimath tables

You will find here experimental drivers for ATI videocards and TV/Video related applications.

Henry is an educational astrometry utility for performing calculations based on a Hertzsprung-Russel (H-R) diagram, such as spectroscopic parallax for working out the distance to a given star. Unlike many other solutions that use in-built images ... [More] for their H-R diagrams, Henry plots data directly from the European Space Agency's HIPPARCOS catalogue, allowing increased accuracy while also giving students greater room to experiment by exploring the catalogue themselves. Henry runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and anywhere Qt4 and OpenGL are available. It is free (as in speech and beer) and licensed under a BSD-style license. [Less]

A numerical library based on .Net, providing basic functionality for data manipulation and processing primarily intended for use in astronomy.

Piranha is an algebraic manipulation framework for Celestial Mechanics, written in C++ using generic and template (meta)programming techniques.