Linux astro software
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xtide
Harmonic tide clock and tide predictor
p5-Geo-METAR
A perl module that processes METAR information from NOAA sources
gpsd
Daemon that monitors one or more GPSes attached to a host computer
p5-Astro-SpaceTrack
Retrieve orbital data from www.space-track.org
google-earth
Explore, Search and Discover
weatherspect
Weather simulation in ASCII art
p5-GPS
Perl interface to GPS receivers
SETIsupport
JAVA application that shows current state of seti@home client
accrete
Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation
celestia
Scriptable space flight simulator for X
All linux astro software (ordered by name)
SETIsupport
JAVA application that shows current state of seti@home client
accrete
Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation
celestia
Scriptable space flight simulator for X
cfitsio
Library for reading and writing files in FITS data format
dgpsip
Differential GPS over IP communication device
ephem
An interactive terminal-based astronomical ephemeris program
fooseti
GTK+ frontend to SETI@Home
gdesklets-goodweather
A desklet that displays current weather condition and forecast
gdesklets-goodweather-psi
A desklet that displays current weather condition and forecast
gdesklets-seti
Simple but useful setidesklet with less CPU-usage
gdesklets-weather
A weather monitoring Sensor and Display for gdesklets
gkrellmearth
A plugin for GKrellM that displays a rotating earth
gkrellmoon
A moon clock plugin for Gkrellm
gkrellmseti
A SETI@home plugin for GKrellM
gkrellsun
A Gkrellm-Plugin that displays the local sun rise and sun set times
glunarclock
GNOME applet that displays the current phase of the Moon
gpsdrive
A GPS navigation system
gpsman
A Tcl/Tk-based GPS management utility
jday
Astronomical julian date calculator
ksetisaver
A KDE screensaver frontend for the Linux seti@home client
ksetispy
Monitors the progress of the SETI@home client
ksetiwatch
A monitoring tool for the seti@home client
libnova
Astronomical Calculation Library
linux-setiathome
Donate idle cycles to the search for space aliens - Linux i686 version
luna
Display the moon's phase
match
A program for matching star lists
mymoon
Show latitude and longitude of the moon
nightfall
An interactive binary star application
nova
An Integrated Observational Environment for amateur astronomers
openuniverse
OpenGL Solar System simulator for X Window System
p5-Astro-ADS
An OO Perl interface to the ADS abstract service
p5-Astro-Catalog
A generic stellar catalogue object
p5-Astro-DSS
An OO interface to the 1st and 2nd Digital Sky Surveys
p5-Astro-FITS-Header
Object Orientated interface to FITS HDUs
p5-Astro-MoonPhase
Perl interface to calculate information about the phase of the moon
p5-Astro-SIMBAD
An OO Perl interface to the SIMBAD astronomical database
p5-Astro-SunTime
Perl interface to calculate sunrise/sunset times
p5-Astro-Sunrise
Perl extension for computing the sunrise/sunset on a given day
p5-GPS
Perl interface to GPS receivers
p5-Geo-METAR
A perl module that processes METAR information from NOAA sources
p5-SETI-Stats
Perl module for local/remote access to SETI@home stats
phoon
Displays the phase of the moon
planets
An orbital simulator
pp3
Creates celestial charts
py-metar
Python module that provides access to NOAA's METAR weather reports
pyweather
Python script that downloads weather data and can be cronned
rmap
Generates images of the Earth centered at a particular location
roadmap
Vector-based GPS moving map
saoimage
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory image utility for X
sattrack
Real-time satellite tracking and orbit propagation program
setiathome
sky2000
A binary representation of the Sky2000 star catalog
spacechart
SpaceChart is a star chart viewer for GNOME
squeuer
A queueing proxy for Seti@Home
sscalc
A sunrise/sunset time calculator
starplot
3-dimensional viewer for star charts
stars
Star field demo
stellarium
A 3D photo-realistic sky renderer
sunclock
Shows which portion of the Earth's surface is illuminated by the Sun
tkseti
Tk-based interface to SETI@Home
wmglobe
A neat xearth-like WindowMaker dockapp
wmjupiter
Dockapp that displays information on jupiter
wmmoonclock
Displays the phase of the moon, plus orbital data
wmsolar
A dockapp that displays the solar system viewed from top
wmspaceweather
A DockApp that shows the weather at geosynchronous orbit
wmsun
A dockapp that displays the rise and set time of the sun
xearth
Set the root window to the image of earth
xephem
An interactive astronomical ephemeris program
xglobe
Displays a view of the Earth (like xearth) with a rendered photo map
xphoon
Set the root window to the moon in its current phase
xplanet
Draw pictures of the earth textured by an image
xtide
Harmonic tide clock and tide predictor
xworld
Earth as seen from the direction of the sun
gkrellmoon2
A moon clock plugin for Gkrellm2
boinc-setiathome
Setiathome for boinc
orsa
Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis
seti_applet
An applet that displays current status of seti@home client
openmap
Java toolkit for manipulating and displaying geographic data
stardates
Displays date in 5 formats (including stardate of course)
aa
Self-contained ephemeris calculator
boinc-einsteinathome
Search for gravitational waves, a distributed computing project
boinc-setiathome-enhanced
Setiathome Enhanced for BOINC
gaia
Display geographic maps with optional GPS tracking support
google-earth
Explore, Search and Discover
gpsbabel
A gps file translating tool
gpsd
Daemon that monitors one or more GPSes attached to a host computer
gpstk
Toolkit for developing GPS applications
p5-Astro-SpaceTrack
Retrieve orbital data from www.space-track.org
p5-Weather-Underground
Retrieve weather information from wunderground.com
position
GPS and Moving-Map Applikation
ptiger
Displays U.S. Census Burea populated places on a map
pyephem
Scientific-grade astronomical computations for Python
tclgeomap
Read, manipulate and display geo data
tkgeomap
Read, manipulate and display geo data
weatherget
Command-line weather reporting tool
weatherspect
Weather simulation in ASCII art
xeartk
Small demo for tkgeomap
xmoontool
A version of John Walker's classical moontool for X11/Motif
xrmap
Map portions of the earth from a given longitude/latitude
gpscorrelate
A gps file gpx correlate exif tag in photos
