Free Astronomy Software for Linux
Oroboros is an astrology software written in Python. Currently features natal/radix charts, transits/synastry, progression, various profection methods.Oroboros uses a flexible configuration system, with a large panel of planets and aspects, midpoints,...
StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.It is free software; the source code for StarPlot is available under the GNU General Public License. Here is a screenshot (click for a...
SAOTrace is a suite of software designed to simulate the as-built performance of grazing-angle X-ray optics using the ray-tracing approach. It is derived from portions of the NASA OSAC (Optical Surface Analysis Code) software suite. It can model nested...
Starchart is a software that produces maps of the stars.Introduction and philosophyThere is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.The things in the sky include stars, planets, nebulae, clusters of stars, and...
SkyCat is a tool for image visualization and accessing astronomy archive catalogs.Here are some key features of "SkyCat":· Display FITS images, with support for the World Coordinate System (WCS), interactive measurement of offsets, and other standard...
Gnome Predict or Gpredict 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...
SkyNET is a simple skychart program for mono. SkyNET is a mono/gtk# program wich draws a skychart. It's useful both to have a walk through the sky or have a look at a c# application.The current version of SkyNET can display the stars of the SAO catalog...
pscal is a Bourne shell script that produces simple, nice-looking PostScript calendars.The PostScript code is sent to stdout, so either pipe it to your printer or redirect it to a...
PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution-independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used, for example, as illustrations in books or on Web pages.It is possible to change many parameters, and arbitrary text can be placed on...
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...
