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AstroImageJ – ImageJ for Astronomy

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

AstroImageJ (AIJ) is a simple and powerful tool for astronomical image analysis and precise photometry.

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SkyChart / Cartes du Ciel – planetarium software

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

SkyChart is software that lets users draw sky charts, making use of the data in 16 catalogs of stars and nebulae.

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KStars – desktop planetarium for KDE

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software by KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky.

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OpenSpace – interactive data visualization software

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

OpenSpace is an interactive data visualization software designed to visualize the entire known universe.

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Aladin Desktop – main application of the Aladin Sky Atlas suite

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Aladin Desktop is software to visualize and manipulate digitized astronomical images or full surveys.

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Virtual Moon Atlas – for Moon observation or survey

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Virtual Moon Atlas is software that allows users to observe and study the moon and its surface.

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Ginga – image viewer and toolkit

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in NumPy arrays.

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Digital Universe Atlas – open source planetarium software

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Digital Universe Atlas is a free open source software planetarium application, available under the terms of the Illinois Open Source License.

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ORSA – Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (ORSA) is a framework for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations.

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PreviSat – satellite tracking software for observing purposes

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

PreviSat is a satellite tracking software for observing purposes. It shows positions of artificial satellites in real-time or manual mode.

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mars-sim – general purpose simulator depicting the early development of human settlements on Mars

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

mars-sim is a Java-based open source project that simulates the activities of the first generation of settlers on Mars.

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SkyViewer – displays HEALPix-based skymaps

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

SkyViewer is an OpenGL based program to display HEALPix-based skymaps, saved in FITS format files. Written in C++.

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Cosmonium – 3D astronomy and space exploration program

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Cosmonium is a 3D astronomy and space exploration program.

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Radioboat – terminal web radio client, built with simplicity in mind

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Multimedia

Radioboat is a terminal web radio client, built with simplicity in mind.

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radio-cli – simple radio with a command-line interface

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Multimedia

radio-cli is a simple radio cli for listening to your favourite streams from the console.

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pmrp – Poor Man’s Radio Player

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Multimedia

pmrp is an Internet radio player script written in Bash. The script uses the mpg123 utility to play back the streams.

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HTMLy – open source databaseless blogging platform

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

HTMLy is a flat file blogging platform. It prioritizes simplicity and speed written in PHP.

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nload – real-time network traffic monitor

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

nload is a real time network traffic monitor for the text console. It displays the current network usage. Written in C++

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ntop – network traffic software

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does.

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IPTraf – console-based network statistics utility

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

IPTraf is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor generating various network statistics.

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