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View 203 business solutionsBrowse free open source Astronomy software and projects 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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astap program
Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer
ASTAP, Astrometric STAcking Program, astrometric solver and FITS image viewer. This program can view, measure, "astrometric (plate) solve" and stack deep sky images. Main features: - Stacking of astronomical images including dark frame and flat field correction - Native fast astrometric (plate) solver. - Alignment using an internal star match routine, internal Plate Solver, manual or ephemeris. - FITS viewer with swipe functionality, deep sky and star annotation, photometry and CCD inspector. - Annotation of solar and deepsky objects. - Photometry of point sources, extended sources and variable stars - Blink routine for astro images. -
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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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SkyChart is a software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs. See main web page for full download. This software is part of a full suite for astronomical observation: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdciel/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/indistarter/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/eqmodgui/ Requirement: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpasastro/ See also: https://sourceforge.net/projects/indi/
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Gpredict
Real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction
Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. Gpredict can track an unlimited number of satellites and display the data in tables and various graphical view. -
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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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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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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. 324K+ 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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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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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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mySQM+ DIY SQM WEATHER STATION
ESP32 mySQM+ Sky-Meter/Weather Station with loads of features
mySQM+ Sky Quality Meter/Weather Station (c) R Brown, 2020-2025, All rights reserved. Permission is granted for personal and Academic use only. Code or portions of code may not be copied or used without appropriate credit given to author(s). EXPANSION BOARDS - You can expand this project using the two types of project expansion boards at https://sourceforge.net/projects/myesp-boards/ -
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The EQ mounts' internal electronics provides pointing accuracy to .144 arcsecs. EQMOD connects the EQ directly to a serial comms. This project has the source files for the Public releases of the EQMOD ASCOM driver, associated programs and an EQMOD compatible hardware design. Please note that later test releases for all EQMOD Project software may be available via the EQMOD Yahoo group.
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As of 2020, this project has moved. See https://mesastar.org. Release versions can be found on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2602941. The code is now hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/MESAHub/mesa. You can find the documentation at https://docs.mesastar.org/.
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PROPER Optical Propagation Library
Routines for wavefront propagation in IDL, Matlab, and Python
NOTICE: PROPER will likely stop being supported at the end of 2026. It will remain available on Sourceforge after that, but there will be no updates or bug fixes. PROPER is a library of routines for the propagation of wavefronts through an optical system using Fourier-based methods. It was developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for modeling stellar coronagraphs, but it can be applied to other optical systems were diffraction propagation is of concern. It is currently available for IDL (Interactive Data Language), Matlab and Python (3.x). It includes routines for generating complex apertures and obscurations and aberrations (Zernike & PSD-defined). It includes a model of a deformable mirror for wavefront control. The routines perform near and far field propagation with automatic selection of propagators. The latest version is v3.3.6 (IDL, Matlab) and v3.3.7 (Python). -
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Lynkeos
Lynkeos is an astronomical webcam image processing software for OS X.
Lynkeos is a Cocoa® application dedicated to the processing of astronomical digital images taken through a telescope. It is optimized for SSE vectorized instructions sets, multi-processor and multi-core machines. -
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Arduino ASCOM Focuser Pro DIY
Arduino Focuser, fully ASCOM complaint
myFocuserPro is an ASCOM and Moonlite compatible stepper motor telescope focus controller (DIY) based on Arduino Nano/Uno. A popular DIY ASCOM focuser with more than 125,000+ downloads. (c) Copyright Robert Brown 2014-2024. All Rights reserved. Permission is granted for personal and Academic use only. Spreadsheet to calculate what stepper motor to use. https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinoascomfocuserpro2diy/files/Documentation/Nema-Stepper-Motors.xlsx/download -
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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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CCDciel
Astronomy CCD capture software
A CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer. It include all the features required to perform digital imaging CCD observation of celestial objects. Using the standard drivers protocol INDI and ASCOM it can connect and control the CCD camera, the focuser, the filter wheel and the telescope mount. This software is part of a full suite for astronomical observation: https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/indistarter/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/eqmodgui/ Requirement: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpasastro/ See also: https://sourceforge.net/projects/indi/ -
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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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Arduino Nano Dew Controller Pro (DIY)
Dew Controller Feature Rich
A 3-channel fully automated Dew Controller (DIY project) based on Arduino Nano for telescopes. For $48 or less. (c) Copyright Robert Brown 2014-2025. All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted for personal and Academic use only. Code or portions of code may not be copied or used without appropriate credit given to author. A very popular project with over 48,000 downloads. There is a new ESP32 WiFi version at https://sourceforge.net/projects/esp32-dew-controller/ The older myDCP2 (two-channel dew controller) is found here https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduinonanodewcontrollerpro/files/myDewController%20v200%202channel/ -
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ChronosXP is a planetary hours astrology program for Windows. It runs from the system tray where it displays a glyph corresponding to the current planetary hour. Planetary hours/days can also be viewed for any given time or location.
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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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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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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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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.
