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Toolkits and Observing Utilities (20)
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» AstroNotes 
[commercial - Windows] A tool for recording observations and planning future observing sessions. Allows tracking of progress on common amateur observing programs (Messier, Herschel).
http://www.astronotes.com/
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» AstroPy 
[open source - multiplatform] Development and integration of tools and numerical algorithms into the Python scripting language.
http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/AstroPy.html
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» C88 - an informational tool for amateur astronomers 
C88 provides detailed information about the celestial sphere objects, visible with naked eyes and for the use of an eyepiece of a modest amateur telescope to observe deep sky objects.
http://www.alcyone.de/c88/english/index.htm
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» Calendar software 
Windows program which creates sundials and calendars, see the dates and names of the year's moons, and calculate Easter.
http://www.blibbleblobble.co.uk/Downloads/Calendar/
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» Deepsky 99 - Software for Observers 
[shareware - Win95/98/NT] Deepsky 99 solves an important need for amateur and professional observers. The software allows the user to plan a productive observing session and record what was observed quickly and easily.
http://www.deepsky2000.com/
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» Epoch_2000 Temporal Epoch Calculator 
Excel spreadsheet calculates temporal variation in astronomic constants, obliquity of the ecliptic, and illumination angles at any specified latitude. You need only input a date or the latitude.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/astro/epoch_2000.html
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» GeoAstro Applet Collection 
[commercial & freeware - multiplatform] Interactive Java applets display the position, daily and annual path of the sun and the moon, for any time and location.
http://www.jgiesen.de/GeoAstro/GeoAstro.htm
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» JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides 
[commercial - multiplatform] This CD contains three Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides along with a toolbox of FORTRAN subroutines that allow the user to obtain the coordinates of the Sun, Moon, and nine major planets.
http://www.willbell.com/software/jpl.htm
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» LunarPhase 
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A comprehensive tool for displaying a variety of information on the Moon and aspects of its behaviour.
http://indigo.ie/~gnugent/LunarPhase
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» Moon Tool 
[Windows] A desktop application that displays the times of the various phases of the moon and a picture of the current phase of the moon.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/moontoolw/
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» Moonclock 
[shareware - MacOS] Real-time graphical representation of the lunar visual aspect for any time/date/location. Elongation, PA bright limb, RA, DEC, percent illuminated, alt/az, heliocentric lat/long, distance, and radius.
http://balder.prohosting.com/stouch/MOONCLOCK.html
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» Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac 
[commercial - DOS, Macintosh] A software system that provides high-precision astronomical data in tabular form for a wide variety of objects; it calculates much of the information tabulated in the benchmark annual publication, The Astronomical Almanac, bu
http://www.willbell.com/almanacs/almanac_mica.htm
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» NGCView 
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] Astronomical Observation Suite - Astronomical observation and logging software.
http://www.rainman-soft.com/
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» PyEphem 
[open source - multiplatform] A module for performing astronomical computations using the Python scripting language.
http://www.rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
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» STD Aurora Monitor Software 
[commercial - Win95/98/NT/2000] Advanced auroral activity monitoring software.
http://solar.spacew.com/aurora/
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» SkySight 
[commercial, Win/Mac] CCD camera control and image processing, includes SkyChart III.
http://www.southernstars.com/skysight/index.html
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» StarTrak 
Freeware for handheld computers to help find and track objects of the night sky.
http://www.startrak.co.uk/
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» Starchart - Star mapping software 
[opensource - POSIX] There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.
http://starchart.sourceforge.net/
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