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Browse free open source Astronomy software and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Astronomy software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Software for Moon observation and survey. Let you visualize the real Moon aspect at every time. Also help to study any lunar formations using feature database and pictures library.
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Arduino ASCOM Focuser Pro2 DIY
Version 2 of the myFocuser Project
myFocuserPro2 (myFP2) is an ASCOM - INDI - LINUX - WINDOWS telescope focuser with a large range of options. 315,606+ file downloads. The most popular focuser project. (c) Copyright Robert Brown 2014-2026. All Rights Reserved. Code or portions of code may not be copied or used without written permission from the author. Other Focuser Projects myFP2ESP32 WiFi - https://sourceforge.net/projects/myfocuserpro2-esp32/ [ESP32 Only] myFP2ESP8266 WiFi - https://sourceforge.net/projects/myfp2esp8266-focus-controller/ myFP2N - Nextion touch screen display - https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/myFocuserPro2N%20NEXTION%20TFT%20DISPLAY/ myFP2M - Ready made Controllers https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/myFocuserPro2M/ Please look in the Files-Documents folder for more information. https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/Documentation/ -
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p3d
General data-reduction tool for fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs
p3d is a general data-reduction tool for use with fiber-fed integral-field spectrographs (IFSs); although, the spectrum viewer works with spectrum data cubes of any origin. The tool is built about the proprietary software IDL (Harris/EXELIS; see http://www.harrisgeospatial.com), but can be used without any license. Most slowly running loops are implemented in parallelized C (OpenMP). -
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AstroTortilla
Astrophotography assistant
AstroTortilla is a wrapper around common astrophotography tools intended to automate basic tasks such as polar alignment and goto correction. Not in active development presently. -
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The PDL module gives standard perl the ability to COMPACTLY store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data sets that are the bread and butter of scientific computing.
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Image16
Image viewer/editor specialized in astrophotography 16bits processing
Opens/saves TIF, FITS, PNG, XISF, PXM, RAW, JPG, XCF, PSD, WEBP. AsinH, Sqrt, Ln, Exp and Sqr stretching, HSL and RGB adjusting, Levels and Curves adjusting and Background Extraction for Color Balance, Flatness and Gradient Correction. Arithmetic between images. Resizing and croping. Color Balance based on background, selection or stars B-V (after platesolving). Debayering/Bayering. Inversion, mirroring, rotation, barrel/pincushion correction. RGB alignment/shifting. Erode, Dilate, ... Blurring (bilateral, threshold and chroma/luma). Unsharp Masking, Laplacian. Masked Undo. Curve Undo, LCE. CLAHE. SCNR. Wavelets decomposing and denoising. Lucy-Richardson and Wiener deconvolution. FFT contrasting/denoising. Uses Astrometry.net to platesolve images. Includes Bright Star Catalogue up to mag. 5 and Tycho 2 Catalogue up to mag. 12 allowing for Star B-V color data for color balancing plate solved images. Interfaces with ASCOM, G'MIC and Starnet++. Macros. EAA. Win>=7 and Linux+Wine>=7. -
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SaVi satellite constellation visualizer
Earth orbits and satellite coverage display in 3D on your laptop.
SaVi - simulate Starlink, Iridium, Globalstar, O3b, GPS, Galileo and other satellite constellations, modify them, or design your own. Requires Tcl/Tk and Unix libraries; 3D viewing option requires Geomview running on X Window. -
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libnexstar
C API to control NexStar compatible telescopes
This library implements the serial commands supported by the Celestron NexStar hand control (HC) and SkyWatcher/Orion SynScan HC. This applies to the Celestron: NexStar GPS, NexStar GPS-SA, NexStar iSeries, NexStar SE Series, NexStar GT, CPC, SLT, Advanced-VX, Advanced-GT, CGE, CGEM etc. SkyWatcher: EQ5, HEQ5, EQ6 (Pro), AZ-EQ5 GT, AZ-EQ6 GT, EQ8 etc. and the corresponding Orion mounts. Communication to the hand control is 9600 bits/sec, no parity and one stop bit via the RS-232 port on the base of the hand control. Communication can be established over TCP/IP if nexbridge is running on the computer connected to the telescope. To control network based telescopes nexbridge must be used on the remote site. https://sourceforge.net/projects/nexbridge/ -
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Aciqra
A virtual planetarium for observers of the real sky.
Aciqra is a virtual planetarium and sky mapping program which tracks celestial bodies including planets, deep sky objects and stars to an accuracy of a fraction of a degree for thousands of years into both the future and the past. It includes the 2.5 million stars of the Tycho-2 catalog supplemented by data of 120,000 stars from the Hipparcos catalog, 13,000 deep space objects from the NGC and IC catalogs and a large number of asteroids and comets from the Minor Planet Center. The program is platform-independent and can be made to work on most modern computers that support OpenGL. -
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Astrosoft is a free indian astrology software program for astrologers and astrological students. Its a Java Swing based GUI Application. It provides Birth chart of individual with details of Lagna, Rasi, Nakshata, Thithi, Paksha and many more features.
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Ksetiwatch monitors multiple SETI@home clients running on your computer or in your local network, and logs/manages completed work units. It is developed for the K Desktop Environment.
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SHG SER Processor
SHGs like Sol'Ex captured SER videos processing
Spectroheliograph like Sol'Ex captured SER videos processing with simultaneous extraction and processing of main line image, subtracting image (for Helium), main2 image (for Doppler) and reference image for geometric processing of main image. Saves resulting images (main and reference) in FITS and XCF formats. Separate delta positions from baseline fitted curve for all lines (main, main2/subtractive and reference). Correction of inclination and size ratio of images. Doppler color image creation from adjoining lines (main1/main2). Transversalium correction. Glare reduction. Opens resulting images on Image16 for further processing. -
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ADV2FITS
Converts ADV video frames into FITS files
This is a specialised utility that works with the astronomical digital video (ADV) standard (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/adv-standard/) and converts individual video frames to FITS files. ADV files can be recorded by devices such as the Astronomical Digital Video System (ADVS) - http://www.astrodigitalvideo.com.au/ -
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NexStarCtl
Cross platform Perl API to control NexStar compatible telescopes
This module implements the serial commands supported by the Celestron NexStar hand control (HC) and SkyWatcher/Orion SynScan HC. This applies to the Celestron: NexStar GPS, NexStar GPS-SA, NexStar iSeries, NexStar SE Series, NexStar GT, CPC, SLT, Advanced-VX, Advanced-GT, CGE, CGEM etc. SkyWatcher: EQ5, HEQ5, EQ6 (Pro), AZ-EQ5 GT, AZ-EQ6 GT, EQ8 etc. and the corresponding Orion mounts. Communication to the hand control is 9600 bits/sec, no parity and one stop bit via the RS-232 port on the base of the hand control. For extended example how to use this perl module look in to the distribution folder for nexstarctl.pl. This program is a complete console tool to control NexStar telesctopes based on NexStarCtl module. To control network based telescopes nexbridge must be used on the remote site. https://sourceforge.net/projects/nexbridge/ -
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PARAMESH is a package of Fortran 90 subroutines designed to provide an application developer with an easy route to extend an existing serial code which uses a logically cartesian structured mesh into a parallel code with adaptive mesh refinement(AMR).
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This project contains two packages. An Orbital Mechanics Study developing the physics equations related with satellite tracking and a libtool C++ library to encapsulate the satellite tracking calculations (gsat).
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Star Blinker
Supernova search tool
Starblinker allows to easily search for new stars in your astronomical photos. The new star could be: 1) An already known or a new unknown asteroid; 2) An already known or a new unknown comet; 3) An already known or a new unknown galactic nova; 4) If it is superimposed to an external galaxy, an already known or a new unknown supernova; Before reporting a potential new discovery, please make all necessary checks to be sure it is not an already known object or a defect in your image. -
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BertoFocus
Focuser based on ASCOM platform
It provides an USB connection for the communication with the PC, it uses a stepper motor that provides higher precision, you can set the motor in full step or in microstepp mode (1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8). The focuser include a temperature sensor. This driver has a ToolBox with which you can control manually the focuser (for example you can set the limits). -
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GIRAFFE Data Reduction
GIRAFFE Data Reduction Software
GIRAFFE Base Line Data Reduction Software is a set of python scripts and modules and a C library to reduce FITS images produced by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) FLAMES instrument. -
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A high performance visualization tool for stars and particles able to run on Beowulfs. Rendering step is implemented separately and optimized for SSE, compatible with OpenGL. Navigation mechanism with quaternions. Ten color maps, sobel contour detect
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JOrrery simulates the motion of planets moving under gravity. It comes with a number of initial "scenarios" you can run, such as "The solar system", "Earth & Moon" etc. You can also add more planets during a simulation.
