Linux Astronomy HOWTO: Software

Here are some links to collections and other indexes of Linux astronomy

software.

2.2 Planetarium Programs

Here is discussion of whole programs for use in finding objects, natural and

man-made, in the sky which run on Linux.

XEphem has been the pet project of one of us (Downey) for the past 15-odd years. It has grown to become one of the more capable interactive tools for the computation of astronomical ephemerides.
XSky is by Terry R. Friedrichsen, terry@venus.sunquest.com. XSky is essentially an interactive sky atlas.
Skymap is an astronomical mapping program written in Fortran and C for unix workstations by Doug Mink of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center.
Xplns reproduces real starry sky on your display of X Window System.
AstrHorloge is a small astronomy software that shows a sky map, give you the coordinates of stars and planets.

This section discusses bits and pieces of software that can be used to form the

basis for specialized projects.

SLALIB, part of the Starlink Project, is a complete library of subroutines for astrometric computations.
Astrophysics Source Code Library is a collection of links to numerical astrophysical process models.
Astronomy and numerical software source codes is a collection of C codes related to astronomy.
How to compute planetary positions.

Every list needs a miscellaneous section, and this is it for Software.

IRAF is a gigantic but exceptionally capable astronomical analysis system, shepherded over the past 20-odd years by Doug Tody of NOAO. It has accumulated innumerable authoritative contributions from leading astronomers in all areas of astronomical data analysis. If you have a serious interest in astronomical data reduction and significant time to invest, this system will reward you mightily.
Nightfall Eclipsing Binary Star Program