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Mymoon is an ncurses-based tool that presents for the given latitude and longitude a continually updated display of: - Percentage of Moon's surface illumination - Distance between Moon and Earth - Moon set and Moon rise - Moon age

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. ;-)

This program draws the Solar System's bodies in simulated 3-dimensionality. You can view all the planets, their moons and a few spaceships in motion, trace them, follow them, orbit them, and even control them. OpenUniverse was formerly known as Solar System Simulator (Ssystem). It was initially released in 1997 with the intent of creating a rotating display of the Earth on a mainstream PC. Ssystem version 1.0 was only aware of the planets. Version 1.2 added moons; and 1.6, more means of movement and better textures. The program has been renamed OpenUniverse 1.0 to underline the concept behind its further development: openness for the whole Universe, not just the solar system -- open for anyone to use, extend, and change.

Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.

PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. You may use own databases or free ones from the Internet.

py-RO is a collection of utilities including general algorithms, astronomical transformations and Tkinter widgets.

astLib is a set of Python modules that provides some tools for research astronomers. It can be used for astronomical plots, some statistics, common calculations, coordinate conversions, and manipulating FITS images with World Coordinate System (WCS) information through PyWCSTools - a simple wrapping of WCSTools by Doug Mink. PyWCSTools is distributed (and developed) as part of astLib.

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.

Python script that downloads weather data and can be cron'd.

This program generates, but does not display, image files containing raster maps of the Earth. It includes public-domain, vector data from which they are drawn, describing the continents, bodies of water, boundaries of countries and U.S. states, and a few cities. Command-line options allow centering the maps at a particular latitude and longitude and zooming in.