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Deep-Sky Planner
''Deep-Sky Planner'' is observation planning and logging software for amateur astronomers. It helps observers to determine where and when to view all types of celestial objects. It runs on Windows. ''Deep-Sky Planner'' was originally published April 1, 1994 by Sky Publishing Corporation. Knightware, LLC began publishing ''Deep-Sky Planner'' in 2005. Subsequent versions have been released to present. Deep-Sky Planner received best astronomy product of the year awards in 2013 from ''Astronomy magazine'' and in 2014 from ''Sky & Telescope'' magazine. The software is developed and distributed by Knightware, LLC. Features * Large database of celestial objects including the Revised New General Catalog & Index Catalog by Wolfgang Steinicke * Search, sort, filter and report objects in the database * Compute accurate planet, asteroid and comet positions * Control GoTo telescopes via ASCOM * Planetarium program inter-operation with: ** TheSky (astronomy software) ** Starry Night (pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone. The first version of Windows was released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Windows is the most popular desktop operating system in the world, with 75% market share , according to StatCounter. However, Windows is not the most used operating system when including both mobile and desktop OSes, due to Android's massive growth. , the most recent version of Windows is Windows 11 for consumer PCs and tablets, Windows 11 Enterprise for corporations, and Windows Server 2022 for servers. Genealogy By marketing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starry Night (planetarium Software)
''The Starry Night'' ( nl, De sterrennacht) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Widely regarded as Van Gogh's magnum opus, ''The Starry Night'' is one of the most recognizable paintings in Western art. The asylum In the aftermath of the 23 December 1888 breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear, Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum on 8 May 1889. Housed in a former monastery, Saint-Paul-de-Mausole catered to the wealthy and was less than half full when Van Gogh arrived, allowing him to occupy not only a second-story bedroom but also a ground-flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadows (software)
Shadows is a software package for the calculation and drawing of sundials and astrolabes, available as a freeware in its base level. It has been developed by ''François Blateyron'', software developer and amateur astronomer, who made it available on Internet since 1997 and continues to improve it. It is used worldwide by thousands of sundial enthusiasts. It is compatible with Windows 11/10, 8.x and 7. Shadows is available in three levels: ''Shadows'' is a freeware; Since version 3.0, it also supports the creation of astrolabes. Description Shadows calculates various types of sundials: * plane sundials with polar style (any orientation or reclination) * horizontal or vertical analemmatic sundial * horizontal or vertical bifilar sundial * cylindrical sundial as well as astrolabes: * planispheric astrolabe * universal astrolabe * mariners astrolabe ''Shadows'' is software restricted to the Windows operating system. It is simple to use but does not aim to be universal. It draws th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marble (software)
Marble is a virtual globe application which allows the user to choose among the Earth, the Moon, Venus, Mars and other planets to display as a 3-D model. It is free software under the terms of the GNU LGPL, developed by KDE for use on personal computers and smart phones. It is written in C++ and uses Qt (software), Qt. Marble is intended to be very flexible; beyond its cross-platform design, the core components can easily be integrated into other programs. It is designed to run without the need for hardware acceleration, but it can be extended to use OpenGL. An important user-experience objective being that the application start fairly quickly, it ships with a minimal but useful off-line dataset (5–10MB). Contributors have added support for on-line mapping sources such as OpenStreetMap and the ability to interpret Keyhole Markup Language, KML files. Marble also provides Route planning software, route planning capabilities. A GPS navigation software, navigation mode called Marble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Software For Astronomy Research And Education
Listed here are software packages useful for conducting scientific research in astronomy, and for seeing, exploring, and learning about the data used in astronomy. {, class="wikitable sortable" !Package Name !Pro Am !Interface !Connects to Online (e.g. VO) Data !Displays or Manip. FITS Images !Tiled Multi-Resolution All-Sky image Handling !Displays or Manip. Spectra !Handles Cubes (Volumes) !Statistics? !OS !Has API !Cost !Suppt'd or Sold by !website !Currently Supported? , - , glue , Pro , GUI and command line , Yes , Manipulates , No , Yes , Yes , Basic, plus python terminal , Mac, Win, Linux , Yes , Free , NASA ( JWST), NSF , http://glueviz.org , Yes , - , WorldWide Telescope , Pro/Am , GUI , Yes , Displays , TOAST , No , Limited , Limited (histograms) , Browser , Yes , Free , American Astronomical Society (originally by Microsoft) , http://worldwidetelescope.org/webclient , Yes , - , Google Sky , Am , GUI , Yes , Displays , Mercator , No , No , No , Browser , Yes , Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digitized Sky Survey
The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a digitized version of several photographic astronomical surveys of the night sky, produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute between 1983 and 2006. Versions and source material The term Digitized Sky Survey originally referred to the publication in 1994 of a digital version of an all-sky photographic atlas used to produce the first version of the Guide Star Catalog. For the northern sky, the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey E-band (red, named after the Eastman Kodak IIIa-E emulsion used), provided almost all of the source data (plate code "XE" in the survey). For the southern sky, the J-band (blue, Eastman Kodak IIIa-J) of the ESO/ SERC Southern Sky Atlas (known as the SERC-J, code "S") and the "quick" V-band (blue or V in the Johnson–Kron–Cousins system, Eastman Kodak IIa-D) SERC-J Equatorial Extension (SERC-QV, code "XV"), from the UK Schmidt Telescope at the Australian Siding Spring Observatory, wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellarium (software)
Stellarium is a free and open-source planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android, iOS, and Symbian as a paid version, being developed by Noctua Software. All versions use OpenGL to render a realistic projection of the night sky in real time. Stellarium was featured on SourceForge in May 2006 as ''Project of the Month''. History In 2006, Stellarium 0.7.1 won a gold award in the Education category of the Les Trophées du Libre free software competition. A modified version of Stellarium has been used by the MeerKAT project as a virtual sky display showing where the antennae of the radiotelescope are pointed. In December 2011, Stellarium was added as one of the "featured applications" in the Ubuntu Software Center. Planetarium dome projection The fisheye and spherical mirror distortion features allow Stellarium to be projected ont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartes Du Ciel
''Cartes du Ciel'' ("CDC" and "SkyChart") is a free and open source planetarium program for Linux, macOS, and Windows. With the change to version 3, Linux has been added as a target platform, licensing has changed from freeware to GPLv2 and the project moved to a new website. CDC includes the ability to control computerized GoTo telescope mounts, is ASCOM and INDI compliant, and supports the USNO's UCAC catalogs and ESA Gaia data, along with numerous other catalogs and utilities. The "red bulb" feature is useful when using software outside on a laptop on a dark night. According to the programmer, Patrick Chevalley, it was released as freeware because "I’d rather see amateurs spend their money for a new eyepiece than for astronomy software". Chevalley has also created a lunar atlas program, ''Virtual Moon Atlas'', which is also free and open source software. See also *Space flight simulation game **List of space flight simulation games *Planetarium software *List of obse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RedShift (planetarium Software)
In physics, a redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation (such as light). The opposite change, a decrease in wavelength and simultaneous increase in frequency and energy, is known as a negative redshift, or blueshift. The terms derive from the colours red and blue which form the extremes of the Visible spectrum, visible light spectrum. In astronomy and cosmology, the three main causes of electromagnetic redshift are # The radiation travels between objects which are moving apart ("Special relativity, relativistic" redshift, an example of the relativistic Doppler effect) #The radiation travels towards an object in a weaker gravitational potential, i.e. towards an object in less strongly Curved space, curved (flatter) spacetime (gravitational redshift) #The radiation travels through Expansion of the universe, expanding space (cosmological redshift). The observation that all sufficiently di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proprietary Software
Proprietary software is software that is deemed within the free and open-source software to be non-free because its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner exercises a legal monopoly afforded by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting his or her freedoms. It is often contrasted with open-source or free software. For this reason, it is also known as non-free software or closed-source software. Types Origin Until the late 1960s computers—large and expensive mainframe computers, machines in specially air-conditioned computer rooms—were usually leased to customers rather than sold. Service and all software available were usually supplied by manufacturers without separate charge until 1969. Computer vendors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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