Open Source Linux Astronomy Software - Page 5

Calculates the shape of a telescope mirror from a sequence of Foucault test images. Java-based GUI simplifies entering and organizing measurement data. Logging and comparison functions enable quantification of the effects of various figuring strokes.

Galaxia is a code for generating a synthetic model of the galaxy. The input model can be analytical or one obtained from N-body simulations. The code outputs a catalog of stars according to user specified color magnitude limits.

Educational astrometry utility for plotting stars on a Hertzsprung-Russel diagram. Useful for learning about stellar spectra and properties and performing spectroscopic parallax calculations, as found in many high school physics courses.

he JAVA library is designed to read JPL DE/LE ephemerides (DE200, DE405, DE406, DE421, DE422, DE430, DE431, DE440 and DE441) and to calculated the position and velocity of the Sun, Moon, eight major planets and Pluto, also the earth nutations and the lunar librations if they are part of the ephemeris.

The JSky package contains java classes for displaying astronomical images, searching astronomical catalogs and plotting catalog symbols on images. The jskycat application is also included and makes use of most of the features.

A graphical representation of the night sky for Linux/KDE.

A character based C library to control the Icom R8500 wideband receiver via RS232 link.

The Mars Rover Simulator project is based on the evolutionary robotics paradigm where an artificial agent acquires its skills through the process of artificial evolution. This simulator can be useful to evolve neural network controllers for the rover

Multi-SETI@home Monitor. This program was written to monitor SETI@home and BOINC activity that may be running on multiple computers over a network without having to cross mount file systems. Runs on Windows/Linux/Unix.

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/

Parallel Iterative Deconvolution is a multithreaded ImageJ plugin for iterative image deblurring.

NOTICE OF CONSOLIDATION & PARTNERSHIP PENDING As of April 2026, the 20 pipelines of the QCAUS/PDPBioGen suites are undergoing consolidation for high-scale institutional research. Core 'Ford 2026' algorithms remain the proprietary IP of the Ford Peace and Justice Foundation. Academic users at partner institutions (MTSU) are currently performing validation; all other commercial inquiries must contact the author A collection of four interconnected open‑source projects that explore the quantum nature of the universe – from the early cosmos to extreme astrophysical environments. 📸 Live Demo The application is deployed on Streamlit Cloud: Live App test now: QCI AstroEntangle Refiner – FDM soliton physics & image processing Magnetar QED Explorer – Magnetar fields, dark photons & vacuum QED Primordial Photon–DarkPhoton Entanglement – Von Neumann evolution in an expanding universe QCIS (Quantum Cosmology Integration Suite) – Quantum‑corrected cosmological pert

NOTICE OF CONSOLIDATION & PARTNERSHIP PENDING As of April 2026, the 20 pipelines of the QCAUS/PDPBioGen suites are undergoing consolidation for high-scale institutional research. Core 'Ford 2026' algorithms remain the proprietary IP of the Ford Peace and Justice Foundation. Academic users at partner institutions are currently performing validation; all other commercial inquiries must contact the author License: Dual 🔬 Overview A complete computational framework for cosmological perturbation theory with first-principles quantum corrections. This package implements: Quantum-corrected Mukhanov-Sasaki equations with backreaction from quantum fields Full Boltzmann integration with quantum scattering terms Tensor perturbations (gravitational waves) with quantum sources Integration with CLASS/CAMB for validation Planck 2018 data validation with Bayesian evidence computation Production-ready pipeline for cosmological parameter constraints 🚀 Fe

Qastrocam is a capture program to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from a V4L device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.

Linux modified webcam capture software for astronomy. This project is a fork from the great Qastrocam, written by F. Sicard (http://qastrocam.sourceforge.net/). It adds some features I wrote for myself.

QuickFlash is a C++-based analysis library for data files generated by the Flash hydrodynamics code. It provides high-performance access to large datasets in low memory situations and other restrictive environments.

SENSITIZER is an ESO software toolset written in Matlab and Mathematica aiming at automating some Structural/Thermal/Optical Performance (STOP) sensitivity analyses with Zemax OpticStudio (ZOS). The core code of SENSITIZER runs in MATLAB and drives ZOS in the background through the ZOS-API interface, based on .NET. The output is saved in the MATLAB file format and can be post-processed using MATLAB and/or Mathematica routines. The optical system to analyze is defined in a normal Zemax lens file. The core data structure of SENSITIZER is an optical group, which can be any optical surface in the lens file or a set of subsequent surfaces. These groups will be perturbed by varying their positions relative to the rest of the system (rigid-body-motions) and/or by adding Zernike shape deformations on their front surface. After a certain perturbation is applied, ZOS runs (sequential) raytracing to compute the optical performance such as centroid displacement or wavefront error.

SolarBeam is a desktop application for drawing solar diagrams. You supply the geographical position, it draws a diagram showing the Sun's trajectory over your location at various times of the year. It also shows the times of sunrise and sunset.

SolarJ is a library of ephemeris routines, plotting routines, and applications for displaying features visible on the sun and planets in the solar system.

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.

Generate pdf diagrams for analemmatic sundial construction, papercraft sundial, and "plus" card game.

Tempo is a pulsar timing data analysis package.

Univerx, a Solar System simulator in OpenGL 3D to show planet's translation and rotation. Includes phisical simulation of orbital movement, textured and lighted planet surfaces and customizable interactive view of the model.

WSClean (w-stacking clean) is a fast generic widefield imager. It uses the w-stacking algorithm and can make use of the w-snapshot algorithm. As of Feb 2014, it is 2-12 times faster than CASA's w-projection, depending on the array configuration. It supports full-sky imaging and proper beam correction for homogeneous dipole arrays such as the MWA. WSClean allows Hogbom and Cotton-Schwab cleaning and has wideband, multiscale, compressed sensing and joined-polarization deconvolution modes. All operations are performed on the CPU.

GUI to configurate and start XPlanet easily. Adds a downloader to XPlanet to load clouds, images and marker files from the internet. Generates cmd (windows) and configuration files for XPlanet and the downloader. Hides in the System Tray.