Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Astronomy Software

Astronomy Software for Desktop Operating Systems

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    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.
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    Downloads: 401 This Week
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    Arduino ASCOM Focuser Pro2 DIY

    Arduino ASCOM Focuser Pro2 DIY

    Version 2 of the myFocuser Project

    myFocuserPro2 (myFP2) is an ASCOM - INDI - LINUX - WINDOWS telescope focuser with a large range of options. 309,000+ 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/
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    Downloads: 273 This Week
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    AstroTortilla

    Astrophotography assistant

    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.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Aciqra

    Aciqra

    A virtual planetarium for observers of the real sky.

    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.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    SaVi satellite constellation visualizer

    SaVi satellite constellation visualizer

    Earth orbits and satellite coverage display in 3D on your laptop.

    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.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    p3d

    p3d

    General data-reduction tool for fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs

    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).
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Perl Data Language
    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.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Image16

    Image16

    Image viewer/editor specialized in astrophotography 16bits processing

    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.
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    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).
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    SHG SER Processor

    SHG SER Processor

    SHGs like Sol'Ex captured SER videos processing

    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.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    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).
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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    RTS2 - Remote Telescope System

    Open source observatory control software

    RTS2 is project to create an open source environment for control of a fully autonomous observatory. It is running about dozen fully autonomous observatories. Its modular design allow easily addition of new devices (to already huge supported HW list).
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Star Blinker

    Star Blinker

    Supernova search tool

    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.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    PMViewer is a Visualization tool for Astrophysical N-Body and Hydro Simulations. GADGET-2 data support.With/Without periodical boundary conditions.Snapshot of scene in PPM and GIF formats.Flying in 3D space. Active/Passive Stereo 3D support.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ADV2FITS

    Converts ADV video frames into FITS files

    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/
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    A framework of drivers on which generic astronomical applications can be built.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Astronomical photographs preprocessing software
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    BertoFocus

    BertoFocus

    Focuser based on ASCOM platform

    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).
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Planetarium software for Amiga.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    GIRAFFE Data Reduction

    GIRAFFE Data Reduction Software

    GIRAFFE Base Line Data Reduction Software is a set of python scripts and modules and a C library to reduce FITS images produced by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) FLAMES instrument.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Hubble in a Bottle!
    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    Mini Control Mintron 12V6H

    Control reducido de cámara Mintron 12V6H para Windows.

    Este sencillo programa permite controlar la cámara de video Mintron 12V6H. Se sitúa en la esquina inferior derecha de la pantalla. Tiene control de opacidad de manera que puede permanecer sobre la ventana de captura. Con sencillos controles permite gestionar los parámetros: AGC, ELC/ALC, SenseUp, Gamma y SenseUp/AGC Priority. Necesitarás un cable para la conexión mediante RS-485. ****************************************************** This simple program allows you to control the video camera Mintron 12V6H. It is located in the lower right corner of the screen. Has control opacity so it can stay on the capture window. With simple controls to manage parameters: AGC, ELC / ALC, SenseUp, Gamma and SenseUp / AGC Priority. You will need a cable to the RS-485 connection. Sorry, only in Spanish language.
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