Open Source Linux Astronomy Software

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc.

SkyChart is a software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs. See main web page for full download. This software is part of a full suite for astronomical observation: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdciel/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/indistarter/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/eqmodgui/ Requirement: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpasastro/ See also: https://sourceforge.net/projects/indi/

Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. Gpredict can track an unlimited number of satellites and display the data in tables and various graphical view.

Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects.

Java based astronomical logging software which stores it's data in a free and open XML based format (OpenAstronomyLog). Discontinued project: Please check out the fork: https://github.com/capape/observation-manager for an updated version

EQAlign born as a software that assists to align a German Equatorial Mount (GEM) exactly to the Earth polar axis. Today, in adition to polar align feature, EQAlign is a full featured astronomical software.

AudeLA is a TCL extension aimed at providing amateur astronomers with image processing, telescope controling, ccd camera driving, and various astronomical algorithms. Web site : https://sourceforge.net/p/audela/wiki/fr_accueil Web site : https://sourceforge.net/p/audela/wiki/en_welcome

wxEphe displays Astronomical Ephemeris for The Sun, The Moon, and solar system planets, given date and observer's location.

cvastroalign is a program that loads a video sequence, aligns and stacks the selected frames obtaining an image as result of this process..

AQUYNZA is a set of C++ libraries, sample programs and doc's for the modelling, visualization and persistence of 3D environments. Its modular and highly portable. Its primary objective is helping to learn (and teach) computer graphics. (code in SPANISH)!

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)

Gridder is a group of portlets that simplify the use and administration of grid services. Especially for job submission management. Gridder also extends and documents the functionality of the OGCE Bundle. It is plenty of useful documentation.

JPARSEC is a Java Package of Astronomical Resources for Standard Ephemerides Calculations, focused on accuracy, documentation, 2D/3D charts, realistic planetary rendering, and Astrophysical modeling. For source code visit http://conga.oan.es/~alonso/

A free, portable, plug-in based, gnomonic sundial calculator utility

This J2ME soft has data about Messier objects, galaxies, open and globular clusters and nebulas. Allows you to make an observation plan according to your interests, see Moon Phases of 2008 and Local Sidereal Time and Julian date. nochesky.googlepages.com

python, SExtractor. A python module to read, write and manage SExtractor catalogs.

Java version of Stellarium.

This program tries to emulate the meade telescope control system (tcs) in a computer, so to create a working system for the tololo telescope of the "Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile". The system is intended to be controlled via a web interface.

Xquetzal/Xitris Get, Process, Display, Store, Compress and Publish (In Web Page) Data from Analog Source Flux in Real Time using LabPC+ or Other A/D Convertor board.

Script for control of seti program, support multiseti, smp, dial connect, process idle, proxy, work offline, nice, stats. etc...

GLNebula is a program designed for the real-time visualization of planetary nebulae models produced by photoionization codes. It uses camera-oriented quads and point sprites to achieve real-time speeds, also provides free camera movements.

La P.A.P.A. (Python Alternative for Programming Astrophysics) want to give an alternative to the astrophysicists (and any one that use RSI-IDL) for start programming in Python using similar functions as IDL and at the same time learn the power of Python.