New Astronomy Software for Linux

Gpredict project is a satellite tracking program for Unix-like operating systems. In the begining (v. 0.1.x) Gpredict was just a GUI client to John Magliacane's excellent satellite tracking program, Predict, but due to performance problems it has been...

coords is a planetarium program. The project is still under construction, but it does a good job of showing the sky with stars and planets at the correct positions.This version shows celestial objects from the Yale BSC and NGC2000 catalogs, planets from...

pds.registry is an implementation of the ebXML Registry information model and client software, implemented for the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS).The PDS Registry provides tracking, auditing, locating, and maintaining artifacts within PDS. These...

Maitreya's Dream is a free software for Western and Vedic astrology.The program supports:- Many features for the daily work of Vedic and western astrologers.- A large number of calculation options that make the program a stable basis for research...

Galacticus is an application to help you create...

Stellarium is a multi-platform, freely distributed and open source software project designed from the ground up to act as a complete and comprehensive planetarium application that includes dozens of features that cannot be found on similar products. It...

poppy is a Python module that implements an object-oriented system for modeling physical optics propagation with diffraction, particularly for multiwavelength simulations of telescopic and coronagraphic imaging.Right now only far-field diffraction...

Gmatch is a tool for matching catalogues using Groth method.Sample usage >>> from gmatch import gmatch >>> # load cat1 and cat2 from somewhere >>> # they are numpy arrays >>> # N rows, 2 columns >>> cat1.shape (20,...

edrn.nyuxls2erne is a converter. It takes specimen records from New York University Medical School (NYU)'s cancer research specimen collection that are stored as a series of spreadsheets. From those, it outputs a series of SQL statements that can be...

Nightshade is free, open source astronomy simulation and visualization software for teaching and exploring astronomy, Earth science, and related topics. Nightshade is based on the award-winning Stellarium software, but tailored for planetarium and...