Projects tagged ‘astronomy’

Celestia

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.

Metrics updated 07 Oct 08

Stellarium

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]

Metrics updated 17 Sep 08

KStars

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.

Metrics updated 06 Oct 08

Gravit

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]

Metrics updated about 19 hours ago

Alma Common Software

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]

Metrics updated 04 Oct 08

Pleiades

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]

Metrics updated 05 Oct 08

PP3

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.

Metrics updated 07 Oct 08

casacore

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

tops

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

Metrics updated 09 Oct 08

Virtual Moon Atlas

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.

Metrics updated about 21 hours ago