Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Astronomy Software

myFocuserPro2 (myFP2) is an ASCOM - INDI - LINUX - WINDOWS telescope focuser with a large range of options. 301,311+ file downloads. The most popular focuser project. (c) Copyright Robert Brown 2014-2025. All Rights Reserved. Code or portions of code may not be copied or used without written permission from the author. Other Focuser Projects myFP2ESP32 WiFi - https://sourceforge.net/projects/myfocuserpro2-esp32/ [ESP32 Only] myFP2ESP8266 WiFi - https://sourceforge.net/projects/myfp2esp8266-focus-controller/ myFP2N - Nextion touch screen display - https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/myFocuserPro2N%20NEXTION%20TFT%20DISPLAY/ myFP2M - Ready made Controllers https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/myFocuserPro2M/ Please look in the Files-Documents folder for more information. https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/Documentation/

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.

AstroTortilla is a wrapper around common astrophotography tools intended to automate basic tasks such as polar alignment and goto correction. Not in active development presently.

p3d is a general data-reduction tool for use with fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs (IFSs); although, the spectrum viewer works with spectrum data cubes of any origin. The tool is built about the proprietary software IDL (Harris/EXELIS; see http://www.harrisgeospatial.com), but can be used without any license. Most slowly running loops are implemented in parallelized C (OpenMP).

SaVi - simulate Starlink, Iridium, Globalstar, O3b, GPS, Galileo and other satellite constellations, modify them, or design your own. Requires Tcl/Tk and Unix libraries; 3D viewing option requires Geomview running on X Window.

Aciqra is a virtual planetarium and sky mapping program which tracks celestial bodies including planets, deep sky objects and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past. It includes the 2.5 million stars of the Tycho-2 catalog supplemented by data of 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalog, 13,000 deep space objects from the NGC and IC catalogs and a large number of asteroids and comets from the Minor Planet Center. The program is platform-independent and can be made to work on most modern computers that support OpenGL.

Opens/saves TIF, FITS, PNG, XISF, PXM, RAW, JPG, XCF, PSD. AsinH, Sqrt, Ln, Exp and Sqr stretching, HSL and RGB adjusting, Levels and Curves adjusting and Background Extraction for Color Balance, Flatness and Gradient Correction. Arithmetic between images. Resizing and croping. Color Balance based on background, selection or stars B-V (after platesolving). Debayering/Bayering. Inversion, mirroring, rotation, barrel/pincushion correction. RGB alignment/shifting. Erode, Dilate, ... Blurring (bilateral, threshold and chroma/luma). Unsharp Masking, Laplacian. Masked Undo. Curve Undo, LCE. CLAHE. SCNR. Wavelets decomposing and denoising. Lucy-Richardson and Wiener deconvolution. FFT contrasting/denoising. Uses Astrometry.net to platesolve images. Includes Bright Star Catalogue up to mag. 5 and Tycho 2 Catalogue up to mag. 12 allowing for Star B-V color data for color balancing plate solved images. Interfaces with ASCOM, G'MIC and Starnet++. Macros. EAA. Win>=7 and Linux+Wine>=7.

The PDL module gives standard perl the ability to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets that are the bread and butter of scientific computing.

Ksetiwatch monitors multiple SETI@home clients running on your computer or in your local network, and logs/manages completed work units. It is developed for the K Desktop Environment.

SoundStepper is a "100% software" telescope controller, for Windows, using audio hardware to control step motors at real time. All it requires to operate are external step motor drives, which can be a commercial "pulse/direction" drive or analog current amplifiers. Documentation: http://soundstepper.sourceforge.net/

A high performance visualization tool for stars and particles able to run on Beowulfs. Rendering step is implemented separately and optimized for SSE, compatible with OpenGL. Navigation mechanism with quaternions. Ten color maps, sobel contour detect

This library is a Fortran 95 gnuplot interface for some Unix like OS'es. This provides some routines that enables direct access of a child gnuplot session from a Fortran 95 program. You will need a copy of fortranposix to make this work.

PARAMESH is a package of Fortran 90 subroutines designed to provide an application developer with an easy route to extend an existing serial code which uses a logically cartesian structured mesh into a parallel code with adaptive mesh refinement(AMR).

Astrosoft is a free indian astrology software program for astrologers and astrological students. Its a Java Swing based GUI Application. It provides Birth chart of individual with details of Lagna, Rasi, Nakshata, Thithi, Paksha and many more features.

It provides an USB connection for the communication with the PC, it uses a stepper motor that provides higher precision, you can set the motor in full step or in microstepp mode (1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8). The focuser include a temperature sensor. This driver has a ToolBox with which you can control manually the focuser (for example you can set the limits).

JOrrery simulates the motion of planets moving under gravity. It comes with a number of initial "scenarios" you can run, such as "The solar system", "Earth & Moon" etc. You can also add more planets during a simulation.

This program calculates approaching solar eclipses. For this purpose, it calculates the positions of sun, moon, mercury and venus in the horizontal coordinate system. These values can be visualized and exported in many common formats.

Spectroheliograph like Sol'Ex captured SER videos processing with simultaneous extraction and processing of main line image, subtracting image (for Helium), main2 image (for Doppler) and reference image for geometric processing of main image. Saves resulting images (main and reference) in FITS and XCF formats. Separate delta positions from baseline fitted curve for all lines (main, main2/subtractive and reference). Correction of inclination and size ratio of images. Doppler color image creation from adjoining lines (main1/main2). Transversalium correction. Glare reduction. Opens resulting images on Image16 for further processing.

This project contains two packages. An Orbital Mechanics Study developing the physics equations related with satellite tracking and a libtool C++ library to encapsulate the satellite tracking calculations (gsat).

Program vznikol ako ročníková práca z informatiky na Gymnáziu Jána Adama Raymana v Prešove. Vznikol na základe programu PC – Sun (autor: V. Feik), ktorý slúži na digitalizáciu pozorovaní Slnka na Hvezdárni Františka Pešty v Sezimovom Ústí (ČR). Program Slnečné škvrny slúži na digitalizáciu pozorovaní slnečných škvŕn a fakulových polí. Pozorovania sú následne štatisticky spracované do tabuliek a grafov popisujúcich aktivitu Slnka. Program taktiež umožňuje výpočet fyzikálnych súradníc Slnka, Carringtonovej otočky a juliánskeho dátumu. Program je určený pre astronómov – amatérov aj profesionálnych astronómov. Program rieši komplexne problém pozorovania slnečných škvŕn. Taktiež realizuje kontrolu vstupných dát od užívateľa. Pre správne fungovanie programu je potrebné dať užívateľovi právo zapisovať do priečinku "C:\Program Files\Slnecne skvrny".

Starblinker allows to easily search for new stars in your astronomical photos. The new star could be: 1) An already known or a new unknown asteroid; 2) An already known or a new unknown comet; 3) An already known or a new unknown galactic nova; 4) If it is superimposed to an external galaxy, an already known or a new unknown supernova; Before reporting a potential new discovery, please make all necessary checks to be sure it is not an already known object or a defect in your image.

This is a specialised utility that works with the astronomical digital video (ADV) standard (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/adv-standard/) and converts individual video frames to FITS files. ADV files can be recorded by devices such as the Astronomical Digital Video System (ADVS) - http://www.astrodigitalvideo.com.au/

A framework of drivers on which generic astronomical applications can be built.

Astronomical photographs preprocessing software

Planetarium software for Amiga.