Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn
more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up
places and roads.
This program is designed to match up items in two different lists, which may
have two different systems of coordinates. The program allows the two sets of
coordinates to be related by a linear, quadratic, or cubic transformation.
There was a major change in version 0.15: the first stage uses the clever method
of finding the most likely triangles described in Tabur, Publications of the
Astronomical Society of Australia, vol 24 , page 189 (2007). This replaces the
more brute-force-ish method of Valdes et al., Publications of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific, vol 107, page 1119 (1995), which was employed in version
up to 0.14.
The program was designed and written to work on lists of stars and other
astronomical objects, but it might be applied to other types of data. In order
to match two lists of N points, the main algorithm calls for O(N^6) operations
(yes, that's N-to-the-sixth), so it's not the most efficient choice. I find
myself becoming impatient for N >= 100, but your mileage may vary. On the other
hand, it does allow for arbitrary translation, rotation, and scaling...
The module is an object orientated interface to the both the first and second
Digital Sky Surveys at the ESO-ECF online archive. While the first sky survey
is 100% complete, the second survey covers 98% of the sky in Red, 45% of the
sky in Blue and 27% of the sky in the Infra-red.
The Astro::SIMBAD module is an objected orientated Perl interface to the
SIMBAD astronomical database. SIMBAD provides basic data, cross-identifications
and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
Use QMapShack to plan your next outdoor trip or to visualize and archive all the
GPS recordings of your past exciting adventures. QMapShack is the next
generation of the famous QLandkarte GT application. And of course it's even
better and easier to use.
The SWISS EPHEMERIS is the high precision ephemeris
developed by Astrodienst, largely based upon the DE406
ephemeris from NASA's JPL.
Developers can license the Ephemeris library.Ephemeris
users find 3200 years of read-made printable files of
ephemerides, containing 19'200 print pages in PDF quality.
The Swiss Ephemeris is available under a dual licensing
model: GPL2 or Swiss Ephemeris Professional License.
This command-line utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather
conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is capable of returning data for
localities throughout the USA by retrieving and formatting decoded METARs
(Meteorological Aerodrome Reports) from NOAA (the USA National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration) and forecasts from NWS (the USA National Weather
Service). The tool is written to function in the same spirit as other command-
line informational utilities like cal(1), calendar(1) and dict(1). It can
retrieve arbitrary weather data via specific command-line switches (station ID,
city, state), or aliases can be configured system wide and on a per-user basis.
It can be freely used and redistributed under the terms of a BSD-like License.
This dockapp shows you the actual distance of Jupiter in astronomical units
(AE) and when the red spot crosses (which is a weather feature on Jupiter).
The four Galileo Moons are displayed too but only when they are near the
planet (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto). The position of the red spot
changes on the surface so you need to change that value within few months
or so. The current position can be found on the Internet. It was 80 deg.
as of 11th Jan 2002.
It shows you the solar system viewed from top (90 heliocentric).
The objects have the following colors:
Sun - yellow Mercury - green
Venus - white Earth - cyan
Mars - red Jupiter - gray
Saturn - green Uranus - pink
Neptune - cyan Pluto is not included since it's way "off course"
A left click on the window changes the view between inner and outer planets.
A left click on the date increases the day/month/year. A right click on the
date does the opposite. Click the right mouse button on the solar system to
reset the date to the current date (which is in Universal Time).
Displays a rendered view of the earth in your root window, similar to
xearth, but instead uses a satellite image map of the earth. You can also
substitute surface maps of other planets if you're feeling cosmic.