KStars is a desktop planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate
graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at
any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars,
13,000 deep-sky objects, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and
thousands of comets and asteroids.
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. ;-)
Astro::PAL provides a Perl interface to either the Starlink PAL positional
astronomy library.
Return values are returned on the stack rather than being modified in place.
In addition small utility subroutines are provided that do useful tasks (from
the author's point of view) - specifically routines for calculating the Local
Sidereal Time.
PyFITS provides an interface to FITS formatted files
under the Python scripting language. It is useful for
interactive data analysis and for writing analysis
scripts in Python using FITS files as either input or
output. PyFITS is a development project of the Science
Software Branch at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Sunclock is an X11 application that displays a map of the Earth and
shows the illuminated portion of the globe. In addition to providing
local time for the default timezone, it also displays GMT time,
legal and solar time of major cities, their latitude and longitude,
the mutual distances of arbitrary locations on Earth, the position
at zenith of Sun and Moon. Sunclock can display meridians, parallels,
tropics and arctic circles. It has builtin functions that accelerate
the speed of time and show the evolution of seasons. Sunclock can
be internationalized for various western languages. It is possible
to customize the app-default file and enter additional city entries.
Sunclock can commute between two states, the "clock window" and the
"map window". The clock window displays a small map of the Earth
and therefore occupies little space on the screen, while the "map
window" displays a large map and offers more advanced functions.
The Sunclock package includes a resizable and zoomable vector map.
External Earth maps can also be loaded.
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.
KAudioCreator is an audio CD ripper, which uses cdparanoia as a
backend to extract the tracks and later it encodes them to mp3 or
ogg files (or many other formats supported).
Features:
- CDDB lookup to extract the album and track information
- Different encoding formats supported (ogg, mp3, flac)
- Different filename formats using tags
The asmixer utility is a mixer control for the X Windows environment. It
is designed to work with the AfterStep Window Manager, but it will
work with Window Maker or most any other Window Manager. It has
controls for three configurable channels which are master, pcm, and cd
volume by default.
The C* Audio Plugin Suite, is a collection of highly refined LADSPA
units capable of (and intended for) realtime operation. The suite
includes DSP units emulating instrument amplifiers, stomp-box
classics, versatile 'virtual analogue' oscillators, fractal
oscillation, reverb, equalization and others.
Herrie is a small command line music player. It has vim-like controls
and has some unique features, like chroot()'ing and dropping privileges.
It also supports submission of songs to AudioScrobbler. This makes it an
ideal application for low-end jukeboxes.