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| Summary: | 3D Milky Way fly-through |
| License: | Freeware |
| Author: | Richard Wolton |
| Email: | wolton@pacbell.net |
| Homepage: | http://home.pacbell.net/wolton/ |
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3dmw.zip (Feb 23 1998, 71K) |
| Description: |
A Milky Way viewer. Fly through a 3D model of our galaxy. High speed graphic simulation of a model that is based on the actual shape of our galaxy. View in a dark environment for best effect. |
| Version: | 1.1 |
| Summary: | View the nearest 300 stars in 3D |
| License: | Freeware |
| Author: | Nicholas Law |
| Email: | 3star@dial.pipex.com |
| Homepage: | http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/road/xpa18/index.shtml |
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3star1_1.zip (Feb 23 1998, 93.7K) |
| Description: |
3Star allows the user to interactively rotate over 300 stars in real time 3D. Every star is accurately placed to the limits of the Gliese 3.0 catalog. 3Star has a completely icon driven interface - no keyboard input except to quit. You can save settings & any screen. It is possible to zoom out to 100 light years from the sun and zoom in to 0.5 light years. View detailed information on any displayed star. Everything is displayed in SVGA 256 color graphics. |
| Summary: | Astronomical ephemeris calculator, C sources |
| License: | Freeware |
| Email: | moshier@world.std.com |
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aa-54.zip (Dec 12 1996, 292.6K) |
| Description: |
C program computes ephemerides of Sun, Moon, planets, comets, and stars using rigorous reduction algorithms from the Astronomical Almanac and related sources. Built-in lunar and planetary series have arcsecond precision. Program reads ASCII file catalogues of stars and orbital elements, displays all adjustments as it finds local azimuth and elevation, rise and set times, etc. The program is useful for close comparisons with historical observations. Archive contains MSDOS executable and C source code. Known compatible systems: MSDOS (Borland C, Microsoft C, DJGCC), Sun (Solaris, SunOS), Silicon Graphics, Alpha/OSF, VAX (VMS CC), GNU GCC. |
| Summary: | Reader for JPL ephemerides, C sources |
| License: | Freeware |
| Author: | Steve Moshier |
| Email: | moshier@na-net.ornl.gov |
| Homepage: | http://www.willbell.com/ |
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aa200-54.zip (Dec 7 1997, 225.1K) |
| Description: |
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's lunar and planetary ephemerides are the most accurate available but software to read them is scarce. Ephemris data files DE406, DE405, DE200 can be obtained on CD-ROM from Willmann-Bell or from JPL's ftp site. This C program reads JPL's data files and computes ephemerides of Sun, Moon, planets, comets, or stars using rigorous reduction algorithms from the Astronomical Almanac and related sources. The program also reads ASCII file catalogues of stars and orbital elements, displays all adjustments as it finds local azimuth and elevation, rise and set times, etc. Archive contains MSDOS executable and C source code. Configurations at source level are supplied for DE102, DE118i, DE200, DE245, DE400, DE403, DE404, DE405, and DE406. |
| Summary: | Astrometry and Photometry for CCD images |
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astrmt31.zip (Nov 8 1996, 670.7K) |
| Version: | 2.02 |
| Summary: | Athabasca University Micro-Planetarium |
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astro202.zip (Jul 20 1992, 87.4K) |
| Summary: | Calculate planetary ATA, rise and set time |
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astro20.zip (Sep 11 1988, 37.5K) |
| Summary: | Astronomical ephemeris:stars/planets positions |
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ephem421.zip (Sep 12 1990, 220.1K) |
| Summary: | Astronomy: Drawing a sky map using GSC |
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brungsc1.zip (Jul 15 1992, 59.4K) |
| Summary: | Program to animate motions of a binary star |
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b_star.zip (May 9 1993, 41K) |
| Summary: | Eclipsing binary stars and light curves |
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binary3.zip (Jul 10 1996, 32.9K) |
| Summary: | A 3D tour of the nearest galaxies |
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cosmoh13.zip (Jan 30 1995, 117.4K) |
| Summary: | SVGA to Herc, professional Astronomy simulator |
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cosmos16.zip (Dec 28 1992, 157.5K) |
| Summary: | N-body numerical integration of moon & planets |
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de118i.zip (Mar 19 1993, 166K) |
| Summary: | Star charts for the PC (part 2 of 3) |
| Requires: | VGA, mouse |
| Email: | burke@octonet.com |
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deep14-2.zip (Dec 22 1996, 2.6M) |
| Description: |
This is not a planetarium program. It doesn't do planets, asteroids, comets or any of that stuff. Some features of Deep Sky include: - Plot over 16,000 deep sky objects and 259,000 stars - Runs under DOS,runs as a DOS session under Windows/ Windows NT/ OS/2 - Provides separate wide field, main scope and finder scope fields of view - Finder scope and main scope fields are user configurable for magnitude limit, orientation and size of field - Search engine finds any deep sky object or star - Use the search engine to select objects by magnitude, constellation, type or coordinates, search criteria can be combined for searches Changes: This version of Deep Sky fixes a number of relatively minor bugs found in v1.1 and v1.2. See readme.txt in part 3 for details. |
| Summary: | Star charts for the PC (part 3 of 3) |
| Requires: | VGA, mouse |
| Email: | burke@octonet.com |
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deep14-3.zip (Dec 22 1996, 933.2K) |
| Description: |
This is not a planetarium program. It doesn't do planets, asteroids, comets or any of that stuff. Some features of Deep Sky include: - Plot over 16,000 deep sky objects and 259,000 stars - Runs under DOS,runs as a DOS session under Windows/ Windows NT/ OS/2 - Provides separate wide field, main scope and finder scope fields of view - Finder scope and main scope fields are user configurable for magnitude limit, orientation and size of field - Search engine finds any deep sky object or star - Use the search engine to select objects by magnitude, constellation, type or coordinates, search criteria can be combined for searches Changes: This version of Deep Sky fixes a number of relatively minor bugs found in v1.1 and v1.2. See readme.txt in part 3 for details. |
| Summary: | Star charts for the PC (part 1 of 3) |
| Requires: | VGA, mouse |
| Email: | burke@octonet.com |
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deep14-1.zip (Dec 22 1996, 2.9M) |
| Description: |
This is not a planetarium program. It doesn't do planets, asteroids, comets or any of that stuff. Some features of Deep Sky include: - Plot over 16,000 deep sky objects and 259,000 stars - Runs under DOS,runs as a DOS session under Windows/ Windows NT/ OS/2 - Provides separate wide field, main scope and finder scope fields of view - Finder scope and main scope fields are user configurable for magnitude limit, orientation and size of field - Search engine finds any deep sky object or star - Use the search engine to select objects by magnitude, constellation, type or coordinates, search criteria can be combined for searches Changes: This version of Deep Sky fixes a number of relatively minor bugs found in v1.1 and v1.2. See readme.txt in part 3 for details. |
| Summary: | For star maps & telescope control |
| License: | Shareware |
| Author: | David Chandler, David Chandler Company |
| Email: | David@DavidChandler.com |
| Homepage: | http://www.DavidChandler.com/ |
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dspac556.zip (Jul 17 1998, 1.3M) |
| Description: |
Deep Space generates star maps in a wide variety of formats and map projections. The variety and flexibility of its mapping functions is one of its strong points. It incorporates more comet computation and plotting features than any other program available to the public. Star maps and orbit diagrams can be plotted as standard charts or 3-D for better spacial visualization. Telescope control allows you to calibrate on as many stars as you want and compensates for mount errors for greatly improved pointing accuracy. The Shareware version limits the database to naked-eye stars and the Messier objects and supports only Postscript printers. The 18 million star Guide Star Catalog, 10,000 deep sky objects, and 10,000 comets and asteroids are included on the CD Rom in the registered version.
Deep Space will run under Windows 95/98. (A bug in the Borland compiler |
| Summary: | Displays a binary star system in 3-D |
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diff_dra.zip (May 9 1993, 40.9K) |
| Version: | 3.5 |
| Summary: | Astronomical program |
| License: | Shareware |
| Author: | Larry Nagy, ElanWare Inc |
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earthw35.zip (May 31 1997, 370.5K) |
| Description: |
EarthWatch v3.5 graphically displays in real time a striking dynamic Mercator projection map of the world including such features as: - Any date selectable from the year 0 through 3000. - Graphical presentation of daylight and night areas of the earth. - Sunrise and sunset times for a user-specified location and date. - Comparison of sunrise/sunset times with those of previous day. - Number of days until start of the next season (solstices and equinoxes). - Percentage of daylight for the specified date and location. - Time of day in each of the world's time zones. - Present sunrise and sunset zones throughout the world. - Tracks and displays latitude and longitude of major cities with a mouse-driven cursor. - Distance of the sun and moon from earth. - Position, age, and phase of the moon. - Position of the sun along the analemma path throughout the year. - Almanac information such as Julian date, solar declination, equation of time, etc. - Solunar table for any month and year specified (0 through 3000). - Three map styles (elevation, natural, and national). |
| Summary: | Find relative weight & info on local planets |
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expwt21.zip (May 28 1994, 45.7K) |
| Summary: | Animates motions of Jupiter and its satellites |
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galil.zip (May 9 1993, 48.7K) |
| Summary: | Displays relative positions of Jupiter's Moons |
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galsat53.zip (Jul 10 1996, 52.7K) |
| Summary: | Easy-to-use Globular Cluster Simulation |
| License: | Freeware |
| Author: | Graeme Fenwick |
| Email: | gfenwick@primex.co.uk |
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glclu12.zip (Dec 9 1998, 144.3K) |
| Description: |
Globular is a simulation of gravity and other forces within a globular cluster of space. It's ideal for a simple demonstration of the forces involved in this sort of situation, as the same initial configuration can be run with different parameters for very different results. Try increasing the mass of the bodies and seeing the entire system collapse, or slow the whole thing down to a crawl. Increase the visible size of the bodies to massive spheres, or select point sources instead. Leave trails behind or not - it's your choice. Globular isn't a heavyweight simulation, but it's very easy to use and configure, fun just to play around with, and also pretty to look at!
Globular has been written in C, and has been designed to be as portable |
| Summary: | Simulates motions of planetary bodies in space |
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gravity2.zip (Apr 11 1990, 93.4K) |
| Summary: | N-body gravitational simulator and player |
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grvkit02.zip (Jan 8 1994, 243.2K) |
| Summary: | Aurora Spacecraft heat shield design, w/source |
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heat0-1.zip (Nov 10 1993, 71K) |
| Version: | 1.2 |
| Summary: | Astronomical image processing |
| License: | Shareware |
| Requires: | Extended memory above 1 MB, XMS memory manager v2.0 or later, VGA minimum. |
| Email: | jim@jamesroe.com |
| Homepage: | http://www.jamesroe.com/astro/starhome.htm/ |
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jimsd100.zip (Apr 26 1997, 279.2K) |
| Description: |
JIMSAIP v1.00 is an astronomical image processing program that will load files from SBIG CCD cameras and FITS files. Maximum image size is limited by computer memory and maximum displayable image is limited by video card up to and including 1024x768. A 765x510 image can be processed and displayed with less than 5 MB of extended memory (above 1 MB) and a video card with a VESA &h103 mode. Images can be resampled to fit smaller displays or to realize square pixels. It is a DOS program that will run in a Win3.1 window. There are 37 menu functions including Wiener Deconvolution and Save to GIF. Images can be calibrated for astrometry using reference stars from the GSC v1.1 which is available on CD Rom and/or reference stars from the GSC v1.2 which is available over the WEB. |
| Summary: | Animated display of Jupiters' satellites (CGA) |
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jpstphn2.zip (Jun 17 1991, 52.2K) |
| Summary: | Jovian satellites simulator with animation |
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jupsat40.zip (Jan 31 1994, 48.8K) |
| Version: | 2.31 |
| Summary: | Komsoft: Program for comet watchers |
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koms231.zip (Sep 2 1995, 67.4K) |
| Version: | 1.0 |
| Summary: | Realistic planetarium simulator |
| License: | Freeware |
| Author: | Fabio Cavicchio |
| Email: | msb@ntt.it |
| Homepage: | http://www.sira.it/msb/ |
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mpla_eng.zip (Jul 4 1998, 124.4K) |
| Description: |
Mirapla is fast, the sky is updated in a fraction of a second. Mirapla is realistic, the star brightness is kept similar to the real stars and this means that it is possible to study constellations watching the PC. Mirapla is not a catalog of deep-sky objects and cannot zoom the sky. Mirapla is a software for the visual observer. |
| Summary: | Graphic display of moon's face w/pan/move/find |
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moon.zip (Apr 7 1990, 50.9K) |
| Summary: | Show phases of the Moon from BC to 9999 |
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moon301.zip (Nov 25 1996, 527.3K) |
| Summary: | Nautical Almanac Data for |
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nalm1996.zip (Oct 11 1995, 411.8K) |
| Summary: | Point and click Nbody gravitational simulation |
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nbodyd16.zip (Jan 25 1995, 134.8K) |
| Summary: | Gives time/azimuth/coords for planet rise/sets |
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planet.zip (Jan 10 1989, 37.9K) |
| Version: | 4.2 |
| Summary: | Solar System simulator |
| License: | Shareware |
| Author: | Davice Chandler |
| Email: | David@DavidChandler.com |
| Homepage: | http://www.DavidChandler.com/ |
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pltver42.zip (Apr 29 2000, 99.5K) |
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Planet Tracker v4.2 is a Shareware solar system simulator designed for educational use. It displays motion along the ecliptic for real dates with or without lines tracing the motions, split-screen comparisons showing the motions from different points of view, and printable worksheets for classes where a computer is not available. An extensive help file and suggested lab activities are included. The program is a result of a collaboration between teacher/textbook author Michael Zeilik and teacher/programmer David Chandler. |
| Summary: | Solar system simulator and reference |
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plnwch20.zip (May 26 1994, 313K) |
| Summary: | Islamic Prayer time calculator |
| License: | Freeware |
| Author: | Ali Alhadad |
| Email: | alhadad@yahoo.com |
| Homepage: | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/9311/ |
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spack.zip (Aug 2 1998, 75.3K) |
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SalatTimes v1.3 SalatTimes is a MS DOS program for calculating Islamic Prayer Times for any location on the globe and for the time interval from year -2000 BC to 6000 AD. The program also calculates the instance of new moon, rise, transit and set times for the moon. In addition it provides Qibla direction and calculates the distance to Mecca. |
| Summary: | Displays relative positions of Saturn's Moons |
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satsat2.zip (Jul 12 1996, 76.3K) |
| Summary: | Mathematical model of sunlit planet Saturn/CGA |
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satview2.zip (Jun 17 1991, 32.6K) |
| Summary: | Animates stellar evolution in the HR diagram |
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sclock10.zip (Nov 8 1995, 54.5K) |
| Summary: | Space Flight Simulator, CGA/HGC/EGA/VGA |
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sfs101.zip (Oct 20 1991, 247.3K) |
| Version: | 1.01 |
| Summary: | Source code for Space Flight Simulator |
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sfs101s.zip (Nov 3 1991, 387.5K) |
| Summary: | Simulation of occultation stars by the Moon |
| License: | Shareware |
| Author: | Ludek Vasta |
| Email: | ludek@sorry.vse.cz |
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simon10a.zip (Feb 23 1998, 59.9K) |
| Description: |
The program serves as simulator of occultations of stars by the Moon and it can also measure exactly observer's reaction time, what can be used for training of reliability of the reaction. Each observer has to know his reaction in current situation and to correct recorded time of disappearance or reapearance of a star. The Moon during its revolution of the Earth covers some stars when viewed from the Earth surface, we can detect these events and determine their accurate time. Two sorts of events occur: disappearance (D) and reappearance (R) of a star at the edge of the lunar disk. |
| Summary: | View the universe in 3D |
| License: | Shareware |
| Author: | Eduardo Nunes, Corvus Software |
| Email: | l40690@alfa.ist.utl.pt |
| Homepage: | http://www.getsoftware.com/corvus/ |
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sky3dv11.zip (Dec 22 1997, 611.3K) |
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SKY3D is an interactive 3D view of the universe. You can walk across 9100 stars and deep sky objects. Windows interface over view mode desktop. The program has three special view modes: - See the sky from any point in the galaxy - Get an inside view of the 3D relationship between stars with Local Space sphere - View our galaxy shape from any point Special Requirements: 486DX or higher, 4 Mb RAM, Mouse, VGA or VESA 1.2 or 2.0, MSDos 6.0 or better. |
| Version: | 3.60 |
| Summary: | SkyGlobe: Desktop planetarium program |
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skyglb36.zip (Feb 25 1996, 354.2K) |
| Version: | 1.2 |
| Summary: | Planetary/Lunar GIF images for SkyMap |
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skyimg1.zip (Feb 19 1993, 1013.7K) |
| Summary: | Star map graphic display |
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skyplot.zip (Oct 11 1987, 153K) |
| Summary: | Solar system simulator |
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solar.zip (Oct 12 1988, 34.1K) |
| Summary: | Ephemerides & Orbits by numerical integration |
| License: | Public Domain |
| Author: | Aldo Vitagliano, Dipartimento di Chimica (Universi |
| Email: | alvitagl@unina.it |
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solex5f2.zip (Jul 20 1999, 1.2M) |
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Two main programs sharing the same data libraries are included in the package. SOLEX v5.0 computes high precision ephemerides over the time span -4000 +4000 by numerical integration, whose starting conditions are read from library files. The output very closely matches the JPL DE406 ephemerides. Both screen and disk output can be generated and several coordinate options are switchable interactively. Ephemerides for over 10000 asteroids can also be computed. Data can also be read from a custom file. Source code (BASIC) is provided.
FindOrb v2.0 is a program for orbit determination also based on |
| Summary: | Star chart drawing package & Hubble GSC viewer |
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starpl20.zip (Dec 8 1993, 319.1K) |
| Summary: | Astronomy at its best - (requires mouse) |
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starview.zip (Feb 3 1988, 201.1K) |
| Summary: | Astronomical Planetarium Simulator (SVGA-HERC) |
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starwrk2.zip (Dec 13 1993, 190.2K) |
| Summary: | Calculates several types of Sundials |
| License: | Freeware |
| Email: | frank.f@pianeta.it |
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sundemo.zip (Feb 3 1997, 667.7K) |
| Description: |
SUNDEMO is a Demo group of programs (running in DOS ) to calculate the folllowing kinds of Sundials: Sundials (classical) on a plane; S. with ancient hours; "Monofilar" S.; Bifilar S. (Michnik); S. on the inner and on the outer surface of vertical and horizontal cylinder; Shepherd S.; hat S.; ring S.; S. on the inner and on the outer surfaces of a vertical cone; Time's Equation curves. The programs allow the user to calculate and tabulate on a printer the data in rectangular or polar coordinates and to draw the sundials in several ways. It's possible the zoom, to show the sundial in perspective, to show the shadows of the rod and to move it varying time (hour or day). |
| Summary: | Sunrise/set for a year, any location |
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suntab05.zip (Dec 1 1995, 33.6K) |
| Summary: | SVGA vector graph. planetary, ephemer. & anim. |
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sv115.zip (Jun 22 1995, 778.1K) |
| Summary: | Displays location of Great Red Spot of Jupiter |
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tracker5.zip (Jul 10 1996, 56.3K) |