Open Source C++ Astronomy Software
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Stellarium
A planetarium software that shows a 3D simulation of the night sky
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It displays stars, constellations, planets, nebulae and others things like ground, landscape, atmosphere, etc. -
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A code for fast multi-dimensional density estimation . Instead of assuming an a-priori metric definition, it calculates a locally adaptive metric for each data point by using, a Shannon Entropy based, binary space partitioning scheme.
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HEALPix
Data Analysis, Simulations and Visualization on the Sphere
Software for pixelization, hierarchical indexation, synthesis, analysis, and visualization of data on the sphere. Please acknowledge HEALPix by quoting the web page http://healpix.sourceforge.net (or https://healpix.sourceforge.io) and publication: K.M. Gorski et al., 2005, Ap.J., 622, p.759 Full software documentation available at https://healpix.sourceforge.io/documentation.php Wiki Pages: https://sourceforge.net/p/healpix/wiki/Home Exchanging Data with HEALPix (in FITS files): https://sourceforge.net/p/healpix/wiki/Exchanging%20Data%20with%20HEALPix/ GDL and FL users should read https://sourceforge.net/p/healpix/wiki/HEALPix%20and%20GDL/ -
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PreviSat
Satellite tracking software
PreviSat is a satellite tracking software for observing purposes. Very easy to use, it shows positions of artificial satellites in real-time or manual mode. PreviSat is able to make predictions of their passes, predictions of MetOp and COSMO-SkyMed flares, transits of all satellites, predictions of Starlink satellites passes and several other calculations. -
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Celestia
Real-time 3D visualization of space
Celestia is an application for real-time 3D visualization of space, with a detailed model of the solar system, over 100,000 stars, more than 10,000 galaxies, and an extension mechanism for adding more objects. -
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Xplanet is a solar system simulator which calculates accurate positions for the major planets and satellites. It displays multiple bodies, eclipse shadows, and customizable labels and markers.
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echoes
Echoes is a radio spectral analysis software for SDR devices
Echoes it's a radio spectral analysis software for SDR devices, designed for meteor scattering purposes. The older releases supported only RTL-SDR devices. They are very cheap SDR based on DVB-T TV tuner dongles based on Realtek's RTL2832U chipset. Starting from 0.50 Echoes embeds SoapySDR allowing the support of many other SDRs. Echoes doesn't demodulate neither decode any human-made signal. Its main goal is to analyze and record the total power of natural signals and generate screenshots and tabular data (CSV,) output in presence of particular peaks in a selected narrow range of frequencies. Since there is no demodulation, there is no provision for audio listening, except for a notify sound when an event has been recorded. Finally, Echoes can also operate getting an audio input, thus producing audio spectra. This way, Echoes can also be used with traditional receivers. -
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Project Apollo - NASSP (also known as NASSP or NCPP) is an add-on for the Orbiter space flight simulator. Project Apollo simulates the Apollo missions to Earth orbit and the Moon and the planned post-Apollo missions that never flew.
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Astrolog
Astrology calculation, charting, and analysis
Astrolog is astrology software featuring many types of computation, display, graphics, comparison, and analysis. It supports multiple environments, such as MS Windows and Unix X Windows, with complete C++ source code available. For more information see the Web site: http://www.astrolog.org/astrolog.htm -
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libpasastro
Provide Pascal interface for standard astronomy libraries
Provide shared libraries to interface Pascal program with standard astronomy libraries. libpasgetdss.so : Interface with GetDSS to work with DSS images. libpasplan404.so: Interface with Plan404 to compute planets position. libpaswcs.so : Interface with libwcs to work with FITS WCS. This libraries are used with the following projects: https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdciel/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualplanet/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualmoon/ -
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The C-Munipack is an astrophotometry software package, which offers a complete solution for reduction of images carried out by CCD or DSLR camera, intended on a observation of variable stars, exoplanets and minor Solar System bodies. It provides a simple and intuitive graphical user interface.
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Astrology software inspired by the SYMBOLON deck. This software calculates the planet positions and make symbolon card tables according to the calculated constellation. It can draw the classical circular horoscope also.
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Navigational Algorithms
Navigational Algorithms - Marine navigation
- Celestial Navigation: Sight Reduction, Line Of Position, Fix... - Positional Astronomy: Nautical Almanac, RA, GHA, Dec - Coastal Navigation: Range, Bering, Horizontal angles, IALA... - Sailings: Rhumbs, Loxodromic, Orthodromic, Meridional parts... - Weather , Tides - Software: PC, Android https://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/ -
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cccd
Simple astronomical CCD controller
This program supports TSNK-lab ICX285AL cameras, QHY5, QHY6, QHY9, QHY8L, QHY10, DSI2PRO, DSLR. It works with Mono images of 8, 12, 16 bits and RGB images of 24, 48 bits. Photo and video modes can be used. Histogram control of preview is available. There are two modes of capture: single frame mode and series. -
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Solar Model
Model of the Solar System
The Solar Model is real time modeling of solar system. It allows user to navigate in space, to control time counting (speed-up time flow) and estimate movement of space bodies, bind camera to space objects (for example, from Moon on Earth in real time). -
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Hammurabi Code
Astrophysical magnetic fields simulator
Hammurabi is a HEALPix-based tool for simulating observables such as polarized synchrotron and thermal dust emission from models of physical inputs such as magnetic fields, dust and electron distributions, etc. It is a modular C++ framework into which you can add your own models easily and then use it to perform the line-of-sight integration to compute the observables. See the wiki for installation and usage information. Please cite the original Waelkens et al. (2009) paper if you use hammurabi. This version of Hammurabi is deprecated and is no longer being supported. A new and improved version of Hammurabi (dubbed 'X') is available at : https://bitbucket.org/hammurabicode/hamx -
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ASIStudio
All-in-one Astrophotography Software Works on multi-OperatingSystem
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nuSolve
Geodetic VLBI data analysis software.
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wxEphe
Astronomical Ephemeris
wxEphe displays Astronomical Ephemeris for The Sun, The Moon, and solar system planets, given date and observer's location. -
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astroDevice
Software platform for the control of astronomical instruments.
astroDevice is a software platform for the control of astronomical instruments (telescope mount, filter wheel, focuser and CCD) through a single interface. This platform manages any astronomical device through plug-ins. It can manage multiple devices of same type (eg two telescope mounts). astroDevice is an alternative to ASCOM and INDI by providing a common interface between each device type and astronomy software such as Starry Night, KStars, Skychart and Stellarium. The platform is based on a client-server architecture to provide the ability to control the astronomical devices remotely. -
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EXTREMA is an interactive program with publication quality graphics and mathematical analysis capabilities. EXTREMA can be GUI and/or command driven. The command language includes conditional branching, looping and subroutine calling constructs.
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PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent sky maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. Databases are included but you may use own data if you wish.
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DarkLight Cover/Calibrator
DIY project to build a cover, flat panel or combo flip-flat panel
The DarkLight Cover/Calibrator (DLC) is a DIY project to build a motorized telescope cover, flat panel, or a combination flip-flat system. Its modular design supports various setups: a 12V light panel without a servo for a wall-mounted calibration panel, a servo-only cover for sky flats, or both integrated into a flip-flat mechanism. The DLC also includes optional dew heating to reduce extra equipment and cabling. With available drivers, it works with ASCOM or INDI. We’re excited to announce that the DarkLight Cover Calibrator project has officially moved to GitHub! 🔗 New GitHub Repository: 👉 https://github.com/10thTeeAstronomy/DarkLight_CoverCalibrator © Nathan Woelfle 2025. All Rights Reserved. Permission granted for personal and academic use only. Code may not be copied or used without proper credit. -
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galprop
Cosmic-ray propagation and emission processes
Software for cosmic-ray propagation, gamma-rays, synchrotron. Current version (r2766) includes * accurate propagation scheme * polarized synchrotron * free-free emission and absorption * new convection models * anisotropic diffusion * primary positrons * free-escape boundary conditions * new hadronic gamma-ray production models * new injection spectral breaks * upwards compatible with latest HEALPix * improved HEALPix skymap format * full reference output for a sample run * deuterium production by pp fusion * JF12 B-field * hadronic losses Full details in the Explanatory Supplement and README. Now at https://gitlab.mpcdf.mpg.de/aws/galprop Older versions, datasets etc: http://galprop.stanford.edu. See also http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~aws/propagate.html https://sourceforge.net/projects/galplot http://sourceforge.net/projects/galpropskymapco https://sourceforge.net/projects/gcrconvert https://sourceforge.net/projects/galpropsynchrotron synchrotron routines. -
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DSPSR is a high-performance, object-oriented, digital signal processing library for radio pulsar astronomy. It implements an extensive range of algorithms and features, and can read data from most observatories, instruments, and file formats.
