Open Source Mac Astronomy Software - Page 5

Ciclope Astro is a Web 2.0 application to control an astronomical observatory (telescopes, cameras, domes, etc.). It contains other tools as album (folksonomy & votes), forum, news (RSS), karma system. Developed using the Google Web Toolkit framework.

Ciclope Planetarium is a web-based planetarium that provides a simulation of the sky from any location at any time and date. Developed using Google Maps API & AJAX. Available in PHP & J2EE. Integrated in the Ciclope Stars project (www.ciclope.info/stars)

Simulate gravity inside a virtual universe and wait to see galaxies colliding.

This package can be used for further development of package needs to deal with 3D geometrical relationship. It provides class for Vector, Point, Coordinate, transformations and also provides functions for dealing with relationships between them.

Arduino al/az mount controller based on lx200 protocol.

Java program for computations with values expressed in terms of physical or other units. Supports complicated mathematical expressions and user-defined functions. Invoked from scripts, line command, or as GUI. Extensive units data base.

A set of cross-platform tools for connecting via TCP/IP to the VOEvent transient astronomy alert network. Tools include a receiver/broker, a sender/publishing tool, and a VOEvent message checker. Runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Generate star maps for anywhere at anytime. Choose from a database of thousands of deep sky objects, including all Messier, Caldwell, and NGC objects. Also allows recording of notes on viewed objects, and configuration of user-generated observation lists.

Java library to calculate heliocentric and geocentric planetary positions. Two types of calculations are supported: a 'fast' version which has an accuracy of about 1 arc second and a 'full' version that implements the full VSOP87 theory.

This is a parallelized algorithm performing a decomposition of the time-series data into a number of sinusoidal components, disentangling them from the white Gaussian noise. The algorithm analyses all suspicious frequencies, including the ones that look like an alias at a glance, but may become preferable later. After selection of the initial frequency candidates, the algorithm passes through all their possible combinations and estimates their multi-frequency statistical significance. In the end, it prints out the set of largest frequency tuples that were still found significant. The GPU computing is implemented through CUDA and brings a significant performance increase. It is still possible to run FreDec solely on CPU, if no suitable GPU device is available in the system. See the details of the underlying theory in Baluev 2013, MNRAS, V. 436, P. 807 The description of the algorithm itself can be found in arXiv:1309.0100. Please go to the project forum to report any bugs.

Freydis is a fork of the Eirik data exploration application. "Eirik is a tool for exploring large data sets, by using statistical analyses and multiple linked visualizations for data reduction." Freydis will continue Eirik's development.

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.

The GPU-BH tree solver is a FLASH4 module to calculate the gravitational potential using a CUDA device.

GRad is a standalone solar radiation model, programmed in Java. It is capable of the calculation of potential (clear sky) and actual (real sky) irradiance and total irradiation for single and multiple geographical locations. Note that, while fully functional, this application is currently not developed any further.

Enable user to create specific hardware to connect / control with / by the Gameboy.

GyVe (GalaxY ViEwer) is a visualization program for understanding the distribution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

Hammurabi is a HEALPix-based tool for simulating observables such as polarized synchrotron and thermal dust emission from models of physical inputs such as magnetic fields, dust and electron distributions, etc. It is a modular C++ framework into which you can add your own models easily and then use it to perform the line-of-sight integration to compute the observables. See the wiki for installation and usage information. Please cite the original Waelkens et al. (2009) paper if you use hammurabi. This version of Hammurabi is deprecated and is no longer being supported. A new and improved version of Hammurabi (dubbed 'X') is available at : https://bitbucket.org/hammurabicode/hamx

The HST/WFC3 IR Point Spread Function: A 13-Year Empirical Characterization for Precision Astronomy in the JWST Era Tony Eugene Ford Independent Researcher Abstract We present the first systematic empirical characterization of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 infrared channel (WFC3/IR) point spread function, analyzing 512 high-quality PSF measurements from 13 years of archival observations (2010–2023). Using a statistically robust sample across multiple filters with precise focus values (–2.0 to +2.0 µm), we quantify: (1) focus-dependent FWHM variations of 18.7% across the operational range, following a parabolic relationship with minimum at focus =–0.2 µm (FWHM(focus) = 1.92 + 0.031·focus2 pixels, R2 = 0.89); (2) exceptional photometric stability with RMS variations <2.3% over decade timescales; (3) astrometric precision of 20.3 ± 8.7 milliarcseconds, enabling detection of 0.5MJup exoplanets at 10 pc; and (4) empirical detection limits for anomalous PSF

Analysis software for Nbody/SPH or SPH simulations (e.g. performed with Gadget II). See http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/hyplot/about and http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/hyplot/wiki for more information.

This project consist in a .NET/Mono assembly containing a simple INDI client and a WinForm that permits to connect to astronomical equipment INDI server, and to use drivers connected at it.

A Java library implementing the INDI distributed control protocol (http://indilib.org). Designed to easily implement new INDI Clients (graphical and not graphical ones), INDI Drivers and INDI Servers. We have started a complete overall of the project with many more drivers the staging site with the current development state can be found here http://indiforjava.sourceforge.net/stage/

This is a project to prove the existence of space travel by observing the international space station. This will include some history about non-believers, maths and a program to calculate the heigth and velocity of the ISS.

Java software that predicts transits of any satellite, including the International Space Station, across the moon and sun, and close encounters with Mercury thru Saturn.

This projects hold software required for instrumenting an alt-az telescope mount. The required hardware is documented here (http://simonbox.info/index.php/astronomy). The software enables real time conversion from (measured) alt-az to ra-dec and manages a connection to Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/), which allows you to view where the telescope is pointing in a virtual planetarium.

JAlma is Java Astronomical Almanac.