Top Astronomy Software for Linux

PyNOVAS allows you to calculate the position and movement of the sun, moon, planets, and stars with great precision using Python.PyNOVAS software is based on the NOVAS software used by United States Naval Office (USNO) to produce the 'Astronomical...

TerraJ is a Java port of fractal terrain and simulated solar system generation programs.The porting has included extensive refactoring, the creation of a documented API to enable reuse of parts in other programs, and extensions such as new Swing user...

Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems, released under the GPL. The project runs on Linux and Windows, and could doubtless be ported to your favorite flavor of Unix.Planets was originally designed for...

SExtractor (Source-Extractor) is a program that builds a catalog of objects from an astronomical image. It is particularly oriented towards reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, but it also performs well on moderately crowded star...

XEphem project is a scientific-grade interactive astronomical ephemeris package.Features:computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for all objects; has built-in support for all planets; the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and...

Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions.Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over...

At the top level asciitable looks like many other ASCII table readers since it provides a default read() function with a long list of parameters to accommodate the many variations possible in commonly encountered ASCII table formats. But unlike other...

ref_index is a Python tool for calculating refractive index of air, under varying atmospheric conditions. Functions for conversion of wave length of light in vacuum to that in air, and vice-versa are also defined.The code is based on the...

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...