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The Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory 
The Jodrell Bank Observatory is in Macclesfield, Cheshire in the north–west of England. The Jodrell Bank Observatory is home to a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. Astronomy SoftwareMeridian Free Astronomy Software - Meridian Free Astronomy Software - Meridian runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, and can be used by amateur astronomers. Meridian lets you consult information on the observation of the solar system: Sun, Moon and planets. This data is given with text and graphics. Meridian is freeware astronomy software. Meridian is very useful to plan or verify the observations of planetary surfaces and of natural satellites for some planets. Meridian is very user-friendly; the windows presenting planets are sizable. You can see the same object at different dates/hours, print the content of window, list the lunar phases for the current month and many other useful information. The data from Meridian is presented with text and graphics. Astronomy Software from Astrod Avis Fits Viewer - Avis Fits Viewer - A freeware utility to show and view F.I.T.S files. Avis (Astro-vis) is a freeware FITS viewer for Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP. FITS files are used in scientific applications like astronomy and medical imaging. Opens FITS files: (8 & 16 bit), supports multiple file opening and drag & drop from Explorer and other Windows shells. Imports CCD files: like SBIG ST8, ST7, ST6, ST5, ST4, Starlight, Hisis, Pixcell and others. Imports graytones TIFF and TGA files. Avis Astro-Vis saves FITS and allows modifications of the FITS header. Avis Astro-Vis exports files: as TXT format, RAW, TIF, TGA, BMP and JPEG. Avis Astro-Vis has on-line help and full documentation about Avis and about the FITS file format. Astronomy Software from Astrod Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility - Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility - Utility to show the visibility of a planet, a star, the moon or the sun at any time from 3000 BC to 6000 AD. Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility (successor to Planet's Visibility 2.0) presents a 3-color diagram that shows when a planet, a star, the moon or the sun is visible during any year from 3000 BC to AD 6000 at any location on the earth. The vertical axis marks the months of the year, the horizontal axis marks the hours of the day. The three colors create a contour map effect and show whether the body is under the horizon (black) and invisible, above the horizon with the sun (light color) and invisible, above the horizon without the sun (shaded color) and so possibly visible. The times of sunrise and sunset and when the sun reaches specified altitudes above or below the horizon can be shown as curves on the diagrams. By moving the mouse over the diagram, the date and time along with the object's altitude, azimuth, and magnitude, or the phase of the moon, are displayed. In addition, Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility computes and tabulates the dates of visibility phenomena: for planets and stars first and last visibility, acronychal rising and cosmical setting; for the moon first and last visibility, and the tables provide much supplementary information. These phenomena are very useful for historical purposes. Since the computation of visibility phenomena is complex and uncertain, alternate methods are provided and parameters can be altered by the user to find what appear to be the best results. There are also diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses, of the rotation, inclination, illumination, and apparent size of the bodies, and of Jupiter's satellites. The settings for the computations may be saved, the graphics may be saved, pasted into documents, and printed, and the tables for visibility phenomena may be accumulated, edited, printed, and saved as .rtf files or HTML files to be pasted into documents and printed. Full Documentation is provided. Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility is freeware and runs under Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP. Astronomy Software from Astrod Iris astronomical images processing software - Iris astronomical images processing software - This astronomy software now allows deep-sky image projection into galactic system. Iris astronomical images processing software. Astronomy Software from Astrod David Paul Green's Free Astronomy Software - David Paul Green's Free Astronomy Software - Window/Mac/Palm software for logging your observations and finding Messier Objects. These include TUMOL: The Ultimate Messier Object Log, TSOL: The Simple Observing Log, OOLog: Overlooked Object Log (based on Brent Watson's book of the same name). Also TEC: The Eyepiece Calculator. Free Astronomy Software. Iris astronomical images processing software. Astronomy Software from Astrod Astro Software - Astro Software - Several different freeware astronomy software including Moovastar. Moovastar description: "Using the Bright Star Catalogue and the proper motion of the stars the program simulates star positions in the future and past. The Bright Star Catalogue contains stars up to magnitude 6.5. You can choose a region of the sky, set the limiting magnitude and set a time sequence (time step, number of steps, and step interval). The program will simulate the motion of the stars. There's a clear help function included. New version with updated print function" Astro Software - Several different freeware astronomy software including Moovastar, Astronomy Screen Saver and Avi Player. Astronomy Software from Astrod GraphDark - GraphDark - GraphDark is a program which allows you to work out when an astronomical object will be visible from your location and when moonlight, twilight or low haze will affect the view. The visibility of a single object, such as a comet, can be shown over a period of months or years. Alternatively a number of objects on a single night can be displayed. This site has a number of screenshots from the program to show the different ways it can be used. There are a few more detailed examples in the hints section and Graph Dark comes with a help file. Astronomy Software from Astrod StarCalc - StarCalc - StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers is also availabl). Star Calc illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth. The star positions can be viewed and presented as images of hemispherical whole sky or any of the user defined sub-areas. Star Calc allows these images to be zoomed at different scales, rotated, screen-captured and printed. Also, StarCalc has many other functions of calculation and showing of sky objects. Best of all StarCalc is freeware. Astronomy Software from Astrod Project AstroFly - Project AstroFly - AstroFly is a software project, which is intended for educational use; thus, if you are interested in astrophysics, it may help you to expand your knowledge about our Universe. AstroFly's main purpose is to present the three-dimensional models of our neighborhood in our own Milky Way Galaxy on a personal computer. The 3D models are based on the remarkable Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues, which are the products of the European Space Agency's Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission. Because of the "CAD-style" approach, an observer is not bound to our Earth in this software; moreover, the Earth itself and all other non-stellar objects are not concerned by AstroFly. AstroFly Features: You can fly anywhere in space. Each star is depicted with its "real" color. You can filter stars by many parameters. Simplified Wireframe of Our Milky Way Galaxy is available. You can check a star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Finding a famous star by its names is available. You can study constellations. Astronomy Software from Astrod Cool - Cool - Determine the cooldown time of a Newtonian reflector. In the Telescope Techniques department in the January 2002 issue of Sky & Telescope Alan Adler explains how forcing airflow over the primary mirror of a Newtonian reflector dramtically improves performance. Cool is a DOS program called Cool that models the effects of different thermal situations. Astronomy Software from Astrod Variable Stars Observer - Variable Stars Observer - This free software help you to plan and log variable stars observations. Astronomy Software from Astrod RegiStax - Registax - Free image processing software for astrography, used to stack images. Astronomy Software from Astrod |