1. Starry Night
A popular shareware astronomy simulator, Starry Night can simulate
the sky from any location on Earth (or in fact in the solar system). It
is live, fast and fluid and is used around the world by educators,
students, amateur astronomers and by people who simply have an interest
in the night sky. Sky & Telescope says if you own a Macintosh
and enjoy astronomy, you must get Starry Night.
Welcome to Starry Night! Starry Night is your ticket to solar system
tourism. Travel in both time and space; get a first hand experience
of the intricate and beautiful clockwork of the heavens. You can see the
stars and planets as they appear from your own backyard, from a country
on the other side of the world or from the Moon. You can watch as the Sun
sets from the surface of Mars. Perhaps you would like to take
a trip to Saturn, there, you may glide through its rings as
it lumbers by in its slow methodical orbit. Witness a total eclipse
of the Sun as seen from the Moon. Set time flowing at whatever pace
you wish. Your only limit is your curiosity.
A version of Starry Night localized for Japan is also available.
Note to users of earlier versions: This version includes Comet Hyakutake
and Comet Hale-Bopp and lets you add your own orbiting objects to Starry
Night's database. It also fixes a number of bugs and adds a couple of other
new features.
Download it at: http://www.siennasoft.com/sienna
or on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
For more information, contact: Ted Leckie (tleckie@siennasoft.com)
2. Views of the Solar System
3. Calendar/Sun/Moon Util
An update of the calendar/sun/moon utility program now featuring an analog-
clock...
This utility can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
4. CatAstroFE 1.1
Author : Francesco Meschia <9306FN@to.infn.it>
Price : FREEWARE
This freeware package updates CatAstroFE 1.0 to 1.1. In addition
to some minor bug fixes, the new version can draw orthoscopic projection
charts that look like the real sky, without distortion.
This update does NOT include the database file, which has not changed since
last version. New users should download version 1.0 before updating to 1.1.
This freeware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
5. Fundamental Astronomy CD
The "Fundamental Astronomy" CD is for introductory astronomy
students and educators at the high school or undergraduate levels,
as well as amateur astronomers of all ages. This 1MB QuickTime
demo provides a sample of the CD-ROM's content.
Highlights of the CD-ROM include an online help section that provides an
overview of the disc, a hypertext glossary, and original interview clips
with people like David Levy (co-discoverer of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9) and
Alan Hildebrand (who discovered the location of the impact thought to have
killed the dinosaurs). Computer-generated animations explain such concepts
as revolution and rotation, how telescopes work, and how eclipses look different
from different cities.
Teachers will appreciate the comprehensive, topic-specific bibliography
with easy-to-locate references. The courseware also comes in a printable
version on the CD for use as lecture or study notes for those who do not
always have access to computer hardware.
System requirements:
* System 7.0.1 or greater
* Macintosh (Color Classic or better) with at least 4 MB of RAM
* 9" colour or greyscale monitor
* Double-speed CD-ROM drive
For more information, please read the Read Me file enclosed, or visit
our Web page:
http://aci.mta.ca/fundamental/
(Christopher Mackay) cbmackay@mta.ca
This freeware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
Christopher Mackay
Fundamental Astronomy CD-ROM
astrocdinfo@mta.ca
6. Galactic Interaction
Galactic Interaction 1.0 -- A simulation program -- creates a simulation
of what happens when two galaxies interact. Using force equations
leap-frogged for time, this program is amazingly realistic in its display.
The program creates two views: a x-y view and a x-z view. These angles
show the galaxies from a top perspective and an edge-on perspective. The
code for this program is based upon BASIC code presented in the December
1988 issue of Astronomy Magazine. The original BASIC code was created
and copyrighted by M.C. Schroeder and Neil F. Comins. This program
is not an update to a previously released program called Galaxy Collisions-3D,
although both programs were inspired by the same article.
System Requirements:
Galactic Interaction requires a 68020 or better Mac running System 7.0 or
higher. The program also likes to run with the Thread Manager, although
it is not required. See the Readme file for hints, tips, and features not
apparent just from running the program.
Galactic Interaction is by Neil Schulman <nwcs@delphi.com> or <nschulman@aol.com>
and can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
7. Jupiter Satellites
Organization: X Systems
Jupiter Satellites is a program which calculates and displays the satellites
of Jupiter as seen from the Earth. A tabular list, telescope view and graphical
chart are all displayed wither for the current or a selected time.
$5 Shareware fee to the author, <mike@beow.mese.com>.
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
8. MacAstro 1.6
This is a new version of the program MacAstro. It includes some
new important features like balloon help and 32-bits clean
(see bellow a description of the differences with the previous version).
MacAstro 1.6 is a program for astronomy lovers to calculate the
appearance of the sky at any time and any point on earth.
It displays the position of the 8 major planets, the Sun, the Moon,
and 2500 brightest astronomical objects (stars and Messier's
objects).
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
Main features:
o Full Macintosh interface.
o Background calculations.
o Displays in color the position of the objects of the Solar System
(8 planets + Sun + Moon) and displays the position of the 2500
brightest stars in the sky, according to the date and place
of the observation.
o Displays the constellations.
o Displays the ephemeris of any of the 2510 objects :
- rising/setting/culmination,
- right ascension/declination,
- azimuth/altitude,
- visual magnitude and diameter,
and allows to save it to a text file for the planets, the Sun and
the Moon.
o Displays and exports a picture of the phase of the Moon.
o Displays and exports a picture of Jupiter and Saturn's satellites
position.
o Displays the sidereal time.
o "Planetarium" mode : an animation refreshes regularly the appearance
of the sky (can turn in background under MultiFinder).
o Editable list of most commonly used places of observation, and
possibility to use the location coordinates stored in the PRAM.
o Balloon help.
o Requires a Macintosh Plus, Classic, or larger and a system 6.0 or
later.
Differences between the versions:
o 32 bits clean,
o Balloon help,
o Possibility to set the time zone to non-integer hours (for special
zones with a difference of half an hour),
o A little bit more APPLE compliant,
o Enhanced controls,
o Correction of various bugs,
o New format of the documentation.
Shareware ($20.00 as cash, or 120.00 French francs as check or
money
order) by :
Nicolas Mercouroff (mercouroff@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr)
20, Bd Arago
75016 Paris
FRANCE
9. Magellan at Venus - Hypercard Stack
The "Magellan at Venus" PictureBook, created from
an existing slide set distributed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, California, contains a selection of 20 of some of the
most intriguing images and image mosaics of the surface of Venus,
including views of mountains, plains, volcanoes, and impact craters.
The captions accompanying the pictures provide information about
these surface features, including their location in latitude and longitude,
a general description, and "guesses" as to what the features might
represent in geological terms. The text also provides information about
the images themselves, such as the date the image was acquired, and the
image resolution.
The PictureBook is built on a Hypercard stack and is designed to run on
a
Macintosh computer with HyperCard 2.1 and QuickTime 1.5.
This PictureBook is one of a series being produced by the Exploration in
Education (ExInEd) program at the Special Studies Office of the Space
Telescope Science Institute.
AUTHOR: Robert A. Brown
NEEDS: HyperCard 2.1, QuickTime 1.5
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
10. Moon Clock 2.10
MOONCLOCK for PowerPC and regular Macintoshes , produces a continually
updating, real-time graphical representation on the visual aspect of the
moon. The lunar aspect may be computed geocentrically, or topocentrically,
for the current epoch, or for any time and date. The dynamic MOONCLOCK graphic
depicts how the moon would appear to the observer. The light and dark shaded
portions of the lunar graphic represent the regions of lunar day and night.
The direction from the Moon's center to celestial north is also indicated.
To the tight of the lunargraphic the following information is presented:
* The lunar elongation angle (measured eastward from the sun)
* The position angle of the bright limb (measured eastward from
celestial North to the mid-point of the bright limb)
* The percentage of the lunar surface illuminated by sunlight
* The current (or selected) Universal Time and Date
* The geographic longitude at which the sidereal time is 0 hours
* The observer's sidereal time
An instantaneous lunar ephemeris is presented in the bottom of the
MOONCLOCKwindow. The header for the ephemeris indicates whether positional
computations were performed geocentrically or topocentrically, and the epoch
of the
ephemeris as both Julian and Gregorian dates. The lunar Right Ascension,
Declination, Heliocentric Latitude, Heliocentric Longitude, apparent angular
Equatorial Radius, and Distance from the Earth is displayed. The equatorial
coordinates of the moon are precessed to the equator and equinox of 2000.0.
A.D. The lunar distance is expressed in Earth radii. The lunar angular
radius
is expressed in seconds of arc.
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
11. Moon Tool 1.01
This is a Bug Fix release of Moon Tool 1.0. It fixes the following
problems:
o The descriptions of what causes the Moon to look like it does were
wrong.
o The description of Subtends was a bit vague.
o The calculation for the Julian Date was wrong by varying degrees up
to
oneday. This was casued by an integer overflow in a calculation.
This bug also caused the phases to "turn over" at the wrong
time,
and also throw out the calculation of the Age of the Moon at
certain times around a New Moon.
o Minor spelling mistakes fixed.
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MoonTool is a program designed give you the following infomation:
o Phase of the Moon
o Age of the Moon
o Distance to the moon
o Dates of the Last and Next New moon as well as the First
and
Last Quarters and the Full Moon.
o Angle the Moon subtends
In addition it also gives you information about:
o Time and Date in Julian, Local and Universal (GMT) times.
o Distance to the Sun
o Angle the Sun subtends
An invaluable tool for those of you who don't like going outside to look
at the moon, all the nethack players among you, astronomers who like
to know when the moon it new and thus the stars are at their best viewing,
or indeed anyone who just really needs to exactly how far away the moon
and sun are...
MoonTool Features Include:
o Graphical representation of the moon, drawn in it's current
phase.
o Iconised and full view, for an uncluttered view of the moon.
o Extensive Balloon Help, describing what all the numbers represent.
o A test mode, where time is greatly accelerated.
o Runs on all Macintoshes equiped with system 7.0 or higher.
o In Colour where available.
NB: The picture of the moon is as viewed when looking north.
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
12. Night Sky 2.21
Welcome to NightSky, a planetarium for Macintosh by Kaweah Software.
Through its windows you can see where the stars are tonight, next month,
or any other time. You can view up to over 50,000 stars (if you
acquire a big enough data file). You can see where the sun, moon, planets,
galaxies and other deep space objects are. You can view all the constellations.
You can add, edit, and remove stars and constellations if you wish.
NightSky 2.2 updates its sky displays every 90 seconds (on a
6100/60) to keep up with the sky outside. If you want to control which
part of the sky is displayed, you can move to another part of the sky
with several methods, including a mouse-driven zoom facility.
Four different map projections are used by NightSky.
Do you want to see what the sky looks like from another star?
Just activate the "View from Star" feature and click on a star.
You can have up to five windows open at a time, each with its
own view.
If you see too many or too few stars, you can use the "Bright"
menu to change that.
Turn on the "twilight" feature if you want to see where
day and
night are. There is also a "magnitude density" feature if you
want an alternative way of seeing star light (your Mac must
have color to use these special display modes). There is also an
"Auto Const's" mode in which NightSky attempts to draw its
own pseudo-random constellations.
NightSky 2.21 is a "fat" application, which means that it will
run
on most 680x0-based macintoshes (an FPU or Software FPU is
necessary), and is also accelerated for Power Macintosh.
For more information on Night Sky, visit Kaweah Software's website:
http://www.kaweah.com
or send an e-mail to: djensen@kaweah.com
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
13. Orbitrack 2.15
Orbitrack-2.15 is a satellite tracking application that can be found on
Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory, or contact the author at BEK Developers:
bekdev@innet.com.
14. Planet Color 6.0
This is the 6.0 version of Planet Color. Compute the coordinates of the
sun,
the moon and the planets visible to the naked eye. View and replay
solar and lunar eclipses from 2 000 B.C. to 4 000 A.D. Converted to
CodeWarrior source code and now available in two versions: for FPU and
PPC.
New features:
*Command-click the main world map to get more detailed submaps.
*Special submap for the Mediterranean area during the antiquity.
*Cursor changes shape to a hand to indicate clickable areas.
*Automatic recalculation of data.
System requirements:
*System 7 or higher
*PPC or floating point processor
*At least 4 MB of RAM.
For more information read the documentation included in the package
Lars Gislen
Dept. of theoretical physics
Univerity of Lund, Sweden
larsg@thep.lu.se
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
14. Soon4.71
This is the latest version of "Soon4", v4.7.1, a calendar,
sun & moon utility!
Now coming in both, a plain 68000 and an FPU Version...!
*** this version should replace all earlier releases that can be found on
AMUG's, MacUp's, etc. CD-ROMS! ***
What Soon4 shows you:
1. The weekday and date in "long form"...
2. How many days are gone so far and how many are left this year,
including automatic leapyear detection...
3. The current location and timezone including automatic DST detection
4. Three different twilights:
The astronomical - starts/ends when the sun is 18 deg. below horizon.
That's when no more daylight's left at all...
The nautical - 12 deg. below horizon. Used for naval purposes, starts
when the brightest stars come out...
The civil - 6 deg. below horizon. Ends when there just not enough
light left for work (traditional, that is :)
4.1 If you're beyond the polar circle (north or south) you're also
noticed about the polar night and the midnight sun...
5. Sunrise and -set time...
6. The moonphase with it's exact days, the position of the moon-
terminator and a common phrase of the actual phase...
7. Two analog clocks:
- Upper clock, which is a 24 hours analog clock.
It shows the start/end of daytime/nighttime plus twilight. This
gives you a graphical impression of how much day-/night-/twilight
hours you have that day...
- Lower clock - is a "usual" 12 hours analog clock. It's updated
every second and shows you the current time...
8. A graphic of the current moonphase...
9. The buttons:
- The "Set" button, prompts the user for location/timezone
data.
- The "Log" button, prompts the user for a start and end date
and
writes the data to a textfile. In a window with 6 buttons you can
choose, what data you want to be logged to the file. "Everything"
or just some selected moon phases (new, 1st qtr, full, 3rd qtr)...
- The "Thank You" button, quits the program...
Docfiles included. This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
15. Star Atlas 0.8
StarAtlas v-0.8. Written by Youhei Morita using THINK C 5.0.
This program draws a map of a region of the sky. It also displays
the positions of the Sun and planets. (Moon is not supported yet.)
Color monitors, Planetarium view and Solar System views are supported.
A 68020 machine or above is recommended, although it does run on
Plusor SE.
StarAtlas is freeware (send a postcard to the author if you like
the
program: Youhei Morita / morita@fnalv.fnal.gov) and can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
16. sunPATH
sunPATH is Sun Tracking Software for Film, Video and Photo Professionals.
The sunPATH software for the Macintosh, tracks the position of the sun
for any day, anywhere on earth.
EXTENSIVE LOCATION DATABASE - more than 39,000 locations worldwide
(Time Zone, Standard Time Info, Magnetic Declination and Coordinates)
DETAILED PRINTED REPORTS - fast to reference charts and an easy to
visualize plot of the sunºs path during the day. No need to take your
expensive computer on location.
sunPATH Copyright 1991-95, David Parrish
All Rights Reserved
For More Information:
WIDE SCREEN SOFTWARE
Internet: widescreen@pobox.com or AOL: wSsoftware
(818) 764-3639
DEMO VERSION - The demo version of sunPATH can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory, and has a limited number of locations in the database.
The demo will only calculate the sunºs position for the first three
days of the month.
17. Sunrise/set
This freeware HyperCard 2.1 stack accurately calculates sunrise
and sunset times for any date and any place in the world. It includes
a database of 190 cities and other places (most of those in the MAP
control panel, plus afew more) so that the user only has to enter the date
and click on the
place name - there is no need to enter latitude, longitude etc.
Other features:
The user can easily add, remove or edit places in the database
Summer (daylight saving) times are handled. A table of rise/set
times on a daily or weekly basis can be generated for display, printing,
or saving to a text file for import into other applications.
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
David Leedham <dave@leedham.demon.co.uk>
18. Terrachrone 2.1.0
TERRACHRONE for PowerPC and other Macintoshes produces a continually
updating graphical representation of the daylight and nighttime regions
of the Earth projected on a map of the world. In addition to the shaded
night time regions, TERRACHRONE indicates the sub-solar and sub-vernal
equinoctal points with the usual astronomical symbols. The longitude
which corresponds to 0 hours siderial time is also indicated on the graphic
and displayed in a text region. In addition, a text text region at the
bottom of the resizable window presents the current Universal Time, and
the local siderial time for an observer at a specific location on the Earth.
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
GSCHNEIDER@stsci.edu
19. ThreeD Galaxy Collisions
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
20. ThreeD Gravity Thing 1.0
From: gailw@notochord.org (Gail Wight)
Subject: 3D Gravity Thing v.1
For those who haven't guessed yet, this is an experimental 3d gravity simulating
thing. I got bored with conventional 2d gravity simulators and made the
small, but interesting leap to 3 exciting, color-filled dimensions!!
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
21. Tide Chart
TideChart is composed of 3 applications, a manual, and data files.
One program computes the ocean tides for many areas and the other
displays them in the format of a paper tidechart.
Jack Tracey jbbjake@aol.com
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.
22. Tide Stamp
Tide Stamp is a graphical tide predictor for the Mac. Tides can be
calculated for 314 tide locations and 50 current locations world wide,
though most are in the United States. Printed output is identical
to
graphical screen output. Requires System 7. Fat binary and 68kFPU
versions
included. From: Brian C Burke, bcburke@violet.berkeley.edu
This shareware can be found on Info-Mac
and mirror sites in
the science directory.