Home Planet is a comprehensive astronomy / space / satellite-tracking
program. You can track satellites, set the date to the future,
track the positions of the planets, position and phase of
the sun and moon, etc. Full details of the features of this
program can be found online at the Home
Planet home page.
Run this program (by double clicking it) to start Home Planet.
Planet’s Visibility computes in both graphic and
tabular form the visibility of the sun, moon, and planets,
including
dates of visibility phenomena, as first and last visibility,
for specified years and geographical locations with much
supplementary information.
Click Here to Install and select Open.
Stellarium is a free software available for Windows, which
renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. With stellarium,
you
really see what you can see with your
eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. It features over
120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos
for
the
brightest
ones;
Planets in real time, with a powerfull zoom mode to see them
like in a telescope;
Drawing of the 88 constellations with their names;
Photorealistic Milky Way;
Ground, fog, and landscape;
Grids in Equatorial and Azimuthal coordinates;
Time control (real time and accelered time modes);
Clikable stars, planets and nebulas with informations;
Ecliptic and celestrial equator lines.
Click
Here to Install and select Open.
This
program is designed to assist students in observational
astronomy to learn the
use of star charts. It is also an excellent reference
for learning the sky; positions of the planets, Sun and
Moon; Messier objects; and other features. Has online
features linked to the Digitized Sky Survey and the SFA
Astronomy web site. This version
includes the North and South Celestial Spheres.
Click
Here to Install and select Open.
Sun
Data including Right Ascension/Declination; Altitude/Azimuth;
Rise/Set; and Distance. Also has Local and Universal
Time Clocks and can provide Time Zone Information.This
version corrects the "date literal" representation
of the date of changes from DST to ST to an actual
calendar date. Includes a compass feature, which notes
the angular difference between the Sun and North.
Click
Here to Install and select Open.
This program will calculate the Rise and Set times
for a given day; Equatorial
Topocentric and Geocentric Coordinates of the Moon;
Horizon Coordinates of the Moon; Local Siderial Time;
Sun Rise and Set Times as well as Horizon positions
of the Sun during Rise and Set Events.
Click
Here to Install and select Open.
Calculates the Rise and Set events
of non-planetary objects. Features included from
the previous version include: Built in Messier Catalog;
common alignment star catalog; and object description
edit. Corrected "Log Entry" option to work
on Windows NT/2000 operating systems. New features
include: Horizon Coordinates for stellar objects; "Favorites" menu,
which allows user to save coordinates and descriptions
of up to 35 objects. User has full control over deleting
individual favorites.
Click
Here to Install and select
Open.
To install this prorgam you must
have Windows Installer installed on your computer.
Many
computers
will
already have Windows
Installer. If you're not sure click on the link above
to install the program. If the installer begins,
then you have Windows Installer.
If not, then you can download it via the links below.
Licence and Redistribution documentation from Microsoft
is included in the folder with the installer program.
This program is freely distributed by Microsoft.
Special Note: Windows Installer
will most often not need to reboot your computer
after an installation.
However, on some Windows98 and most Windows95 computers,
attempting to run the program immediately following
installation will cause an error message similar
to: "...*.msi is not a valid 32bit program".
If you receive this error message, reboot your computer
and the program should function properly.
For Windows Installer for 95/98/ME Click Here
For Windows Installer for NT/2000 Click Here
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