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Automated Variable Star Observing - http://astro.corlan.net/avsomat
[freeware - Linux] Command-line program to automate reduction of variable star CCD images.

Calendar software - http://www.blibbleblobble.co.uk/Downloads/Calendar/
Windows program which creates sundials and calendars, see the dates and names of the year's moons, and calculate Easter.

Deep-Sky Planner - http://knightware.biz/dsp/
Astronomical observation planning, logging, reporting, and telescope control software for imagers and visual observers.

Deepsky 99 - Software for Observers - http://www.deepsky2000.com/
[shareware - Win95/98/NT] Deepsky 99 solves an important need for amateur and professional observers. The software allows the user to plan a productive observing session and record what was observed quickly and easily.

Epoch_2000 Temporal Epoch Calculator - http://www.jqjacobs.net/astro/epoch_2000.html
Excel spreadsheet calculates temporal variation in astronomic constants, obliquity of the ecliptic, and illumination angles at any specified latitude. You need only input a date or the latitude.

GeoAstro Applet Collection - http://www.jgiesen.de/GeoAstro/GeoAstro.htm
[commercial and freeware - multiplatform] Interactive Java applets display the position, daily and annual path of the sun and the moon, for any time and location.

http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/AstroPy.html - http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/AstroPy.html
[open source - multiplatform] Development and integration of tools and numerical algorithms into the Python scripting language.

http://www.rainman-soft.com/ - http://www.rainman-soft.com/
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] Astronomical Observation Suite - Astronomical observation and logging software.

http://www.rhodesmill.org/pyephem/ - http://www.rhodesmill.org/pyephem/
[open source - multiplatform] A module for performing astronomical computations using the Python scripting language.

Its Life Jim: Astronomy Software - http://www.itslifejim.btinternet.co.uk/DawesAstro/software.htm
Simon Dawes provides a collection of public domain freeware written as observing aids for the enthusiastic amateur astronomer.

JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides - http://www.willbell.com/software/jpl.htm
[commercial - multiplatform] This CD contains three Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides along with a toolbox of FORTRAN subroutines that allow the user to obtain the coordinates of the Sun, Moon, and nine major planets.

JWB Software & Services LLC - http://webpages.charter.net/waidbaker113/
Offers Four By Jove, software that provides precise information on the location of the four main moons of Jupiter. Also AstroVizier, which provides a precise and detailed physical ephemeris for the major bodies of the solar system.

LunarPhase - http://indigo.ie/~gnugent/LunarPhase
[commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A tool for displaying a variety of information on the Moon and aspects of its behaviour.

Maxclock Astronomical Clock - http://www.umark.de/maxclock/maxclock_main_e.html
Downloadable high-precision digital clock which displays sidereal and solar times, equation of time, Julian dates, Delta-T, equatorial and ecliptic coordinates of sun and moon.

Moon Tool - http://www.fourmilab.ch/moontoolw/
[Windows] A desktop application that displays the times of the various phases of the moon and a picture of the current phase of the moon.

Moonclock - http://balder.prohosting.com/stouch/MOONCLOCK.html
[shareware - MacOS] Real-time graphical representation of the lunar visual aspect for any time/date/location. Elongation, PA bright limb, RA, DEC, percent illuminated, alt/az, heliocentric lat/long, distance, and radius.

Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac - http://www.willbell.com/almanacs/almanac_mica.htm
[commercial - DOS, Macintosh] A software system that provides high-precision astronomical data in tabular form for a wide variety of objects; it calculates much of the information tabulated in the benchmark annual publication, The Astronomical Almanac, but it goes beyond traditional almanacs by enabling you to calculate data for specified locations at specified times within a fifteen year interval (1990-2005).

SkySight - http://www.southernstars.com/skysight/index.html
[commercial, Win/Mac] CCD camera control and image processing, includes SkyChart III.

Starchart - Star mapping software - http://starchart.sourceforge.net/
[opensource - POSIX] There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.

StarTrak - http://www.startrak.co.uk/
Freeware for handheld computers to help find and track objects of the night sky.

STD Aurora Monitor Software - http://solar.spacew.com/aurora/
[commercial - Win95/98/NT/2000] Advanced auroral activity monitoring software.

Wobbleworks Astronomy - http://wobbleworks.com/astronomy/
John Stephen offers Full Moon, a moon phase calculator, and Full Sun, easy-to-use software programs for amateur and home astronomers.

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