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____/ Bamm on Sunday 18 May 2008 16:25 : \____
> On May 18, 8:47 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> To the OP: see the following.
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>> Free/Open-source Astronomy Software
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>> | Astronomy, considered as one of the oldest sciences, is the scientific
>> | study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies)
>> | and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as the
>> | cosmic background radiation).
>> `----
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>> http://junauza.blogspot.com/2008/02/freeopen-source-astronomy-softwar...
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>> Explore the Universe from your Desktop with Celestia
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>> | Conclusion
>> |
>> | I haven't really discussed the details about what type of information
>> | Celestia shows you. Obviously, you can set it to label stars, orbits,
>> | planets, and other bodies; it will tell you the surface temperature and
>> | luminosity of any object, its distance from any other object, and what
>> | class planet or star something is. This is all really great information
>> | for astronomers, and I have no doubt that this software will serve as a
>> | useful tool for anyone in that profession or field of study. But Celestia
>> | is great even for those who are just interested in space and the Universe.
>> | Celestia lets travel millions of light years without ever leaving home
>> `----
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>> http://www.techthrob.com/tech/celestia.php
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>> Fun with free software astronomy
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>> | Being a devoted backseat observer to the evolution of the Universe in
>> | general and GNU/Linux software in specific, I thought it was time to
>> | show off what I consider to be the elite of desktop elegance.
>> `----
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>> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/astronomy_software
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>> Google Earth (proprietary) will/already does some other planets too.
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>> - --
>> ~~ Best of wishes
>>
>> "Pearly Gates and Em-Ballmer
>> One promises you heaven and the other prepares you for the grave. "
>> --Ray Noorda, Novell
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> I think I have made it clear from my original post that I do use
> Celestia. In fact, it is probably one of the best astronomy programs
> available for Linux (although it also has a Windows version which I
> also use).
>
> My point is that the best astronomy software for Linux are toys
> compared to the best available for Windows. And Celestia IS a toy. It
> it fun to travel to far away galaxies, but that's it. It's fun. It has
> no telescope control, none of the large databases used by
> professionals, no observation logs, no tables of upcoming astronomical
> phenomena. It's fun software but definitely not a professional tool.
>
> Is this the best that the Linux community has to offer? Not intended
> to be an insult, just stating my thoughts. Over the years I have tried
> practically all free (as in beer) astronomy software available in both
> Windows and Linux. The ones I mentioned in the original post are
> already the best among the best. In Linux, the best ones are Cartes du
> Ciel, Stellarium, KStars, and Celestia. No amount of Googling over the
> years has led me to something better that these four.
>
> It's one thing to point a person to a list of "equivalent software",
> and it's another for these "equivalents" to actually be on the same or
> comparable level of usefulness for a particular purpose. I keep a
> Windows partition just for astronomy, and I would rather not have to
> reboot so often.
Have you considered virtualisation yet (e.g. with VirtualBox which is free)?
Also, might the software be compatible with Wine? You could run many Windows
application pseudo-naively in GNU/Linux.
By the way, be sure to ignore the trolls in this unmoderated group. Some people
will try to use your post to spread FUD.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
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