Open Source Perl Astronomy Software

The PDL module gives standard perl the ability to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets that are the bread and butter of scientific computing.

A web atlas using the planetary body renderer, Xplanet. Explore the solar system. Overlay clouds, cities, weather forecasts, and more. Navigate by point and click. Search global databases.

A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates. Also useful for astronomy applications.

Multi-SETI@home Monitor. This program was written to monitor SETI@home and BOINC activity that may be running on multiple computers over a network without having to cross mount file systems. Runs on Windows/Linux/Unix.

A framework of drivers on which generic astronomical applications can be built.

CosmicOS is a framework for creating stand-alone messages suitable for sending to ourselves in the distant future, or to use in SETI research. It is inspired by Hans Freudenthal's language, Lincos, and Carl Sagan's book, Contact.

spice-dlm provides a seamless mechanism for IDL users to access the SPICE library from JPL/NAIF, providing ephemeris information for solar system objects and spacecraft.

Tracking New Horizons Spacecraft on Mac OS X Dashboard.

This module implements the serial commands supported by the Celestron NexStar hand control (HC) and SkyWatcher/Orion SynScan HC. This applies to the Celestron: NexStar GPS, NexStar GPS-SA, NexStar iSeries, NexStar SE Series, NexStar GT, CPC, SLT, Advanced-VX, Advanced-GT, CGE, CGEM etc. SkyWatcher: EQ5, HEQ5, EQ6 (Pro), AZ-EQ5 GT, AZ-EQ6 GT, EQ8 etc. and the corresponding Orion mounts. Communication to the hand control is 9600 bits/sec, no parity and one stop bit via the RS-232 port on the base of the hand control. For extended example how to use this perl module look in to the distribution folder for nexstarctl.pl. This program is a complete console tool to control NexStar telesctopes based on NexStarCtl module. To control network based telescopes nexbridge must be used on the remote site. https://sourceforge.net/projects/nexbridge/

The Open Source Space Flight Dynamics (OSSFD) project is intended to provide the community with an open source solution to space flight dynamics.

Generate pdf diagrams for analemmatic sundial construction, papercraft sundial, and "plus" card game.

Software to support TASS, The Amateur Sky Survey. We are taking photometric measurements of all stars in the sky in several filters measurements repeated frequently to allow detection of variable stars

Interface to allow access to UDF datasets from within IDL

An object orientated Perl applications framework for dealing with VOEvent messages.

chklinks is a non-threaded Perl link checker. It helps finding broken links on your website. It does not raises many simultaneously connections for its job, run out of the resources and crash your system in a moment.

A helper function set written in bash to support DSLR image stacking with IRAF.

This program will enable you to find every solar eclipse in between about 2500 BC to 3500 AD. The central line can be displayed graphically and saved as a JPEG or PNG image file or as a PDF document.