The sky in your computer

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Planetariums and celestial charts

Java applet: Laws of Kepler: Constellations and Solar System in 3D.

Java Star Chart: Java applet that shows to any area of the sky introducing its coordinates or climbs. When doing click on any object, shows more information. The data base contains stars until magnitude 7ª.

Planet Finder: Java applet that shows the location of planets in the nocturnal sky in any date.

StarFrame Applet: Planetarium in Java that shows to the stars and main planets.

Sun, Moon & Earth Applet: Java applet that sample of interactive form the positions of the Sun and the Moon on the horizon in any date, hour and location. It gives back to detailed data of the Sun and the Moon.

USNO Data Services: Services of data from the Naval observatory of the United States (USNO). Through forms online it provides the times of departure and putting of Sun and Moon and hours of light for a day or a year; the phases of the Moon, letters of eclipses, data of main the celestial bodies of the Solar System and the most shining stars.

Education and multimedia

Alpha Centauri: Complete tour multimedia by our Universe, from the Sun to the moved away galaxies more, through 500 images, 30 videos, the news of the NASA, data sheets, a great selection of public domain software, 120 songs in format MIDI, and more than 3,000 I connect to resources in Internet.

Astronomy Presentations Multimedia: Presentations created by the Department of Astronomy of the University of Florida, are of gratuitous unloading; they are made with the PowerPoint program and they can visualize optionally with a navigator and with plugin of RealPlayer.

Astrosoft: Selection of programs of appropriate gratuitous Astronomy and Physics for education.

CERES Project: Interactive library online and of materials for the education of Astronomy in levels of Secondary, made by the NASA, the University of Montana and professors of all United States.

The Nine Planets: A vision of set of history, mythology and present scientific knowledge of each one of planets and moons of our Solar System. Each page contains text and images, some have sounds and films and the majority provides references to related information additional. In Castilian in AstroRED.

Understanding the Universe: Interactive guide of our appropriate galaxy for the last years of the Primary education and first of the Secondary one.

Windows to the Universe: Excellent educative with sections of different difficulty and focused site from all the levels in the education of Astronomy. In English.

Analysis and image processing of data

An important subcategory within this group is dedicated to the format FITS (Flexible Image Transport System), that is the format adopted by international the astronomical community to interchange or to file astronomical images. The Office of Support FITS (FITS Support Office) is the person in charge to document the standard FITS, participating in its evolution and advising to the astrofísicas missions of the NASA on how presenting/displaying its data in this format.

File FITS in NRAO: File of images in format FITS.

Visualizers FITS: Visualizers of images in format FITS for different platforms.

A brief introduction to FITS.

IAU FITS Working Group.

FITS Support Office.

Satellite tracking

NORAD Two-Line Element Sets: Updated orbit parameterses of any satellite with regularity by CelesTrak.

Satellite Related Software: An extensive list of programs of pursuit of satellites and related programs of Astronomy for systems MSDOS, Windows, Mac, Unix/Linux, Amiga and Archimedes.

Satellite Tracking Software: Another extensive list of programs of pursuit of satellites and programs of Astronomy for systems MSDOS, Windows, Mac, PalmOS and Unix/Linux.

Space simulation

To pave To System Applet: Java applet of the Solar System in three dimensions that can be rotated and be extended or be reduced with the mouse. Under this one there are connections to other simulators of gravity online and resources to construct a model of the Solar System.

To pave Visualization System: Animations and films of objects of the Solar System and spaceships.

Tools and utilities for the observation

The Astronomical Python homepage: Development and numerical integration of tools and algorithms in the Python language.

GeoAstro Collection Applet: Interactive Java applet that show to the position of the Sun and the Moon on the horizon for any date, hour and location and on an Earth map with the regions by day and night. It also calculates the hours of orto and decline, the declination and the equation of the time.

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