Astronomy

[sidetone]

Post screenshots from the category of astro or similar ports, or describe your favorite astronomy related ports. Also, discuss anything astronomy related that can pertain to BSD. If you can make it BSD related, including if it uses a BSD license, post it.

Two screenshots of astro/celestia.

Two screenshots of graphics/fracplanet windows side by side, used to make up fictional planet-scapes. I learned about this from RoboNuggie. This is not exactly an astro port, but it's close.

astro/xplanet, astro/astroterm and astro/luna.

WM applications: astro/wmglobe, astro/wmmoonclock, astro/wmsun.


While https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy-2e isn't software, it's a Creative Commons licensed peer-reviewed textbook on astronomy available in PDF and online. You can read it with a PDF viewer on FreeBSD.

Attribution: access for free at openstax.org

Check out: Thread freebsd-and-astronomy.93927

 

[Charlie_]

astro/sunclock

 

[vmisev]

KDE KStars (astro/kstars) is a decent edu pkg; IMO not on par with astro/celestia, but sufficient as educational software.

 

[Alain De Vos]

stellarium

 

[kent_dorfman766]

Initially I had posted a photo from a space commercialization effort I was involved in, where I used freeBSD during simulations, but it is not without some chance that the company might get their skivvies in a twist so it's gone now...If you are interested then web search Astrobotic Peregrine Lunar Lander and NASA's root cause analysis as to why the mission failed. [sigh]

 

[sidetone]

stellarium

Screenshots? or description of why?

 

[angry_vincent]

stellarium is the best sky simulator software. you can find many screenshots on the web. it is written in QT and works in wayland

 

[sidetone]

you can find many screenshots on the web.

This doesn't add to the discussion. Post ones own, to add to this forum.

 

[blackbird9]

This evening's desktop screenshot, updated each hour from eumetsat ( https://www.eumetsat.int ) using meteosat gen3 near real time synthesized false-color image. Taken from geostationary orbit this image attempts to produce a realistic color mix as if the eye were placed at the satellite, with an overlay of country national borders added. In this case I have selected just the area centred on NW europe rather than the whole disk, since this gives me some idea of what is affecting our weather in the UK. The interesting weather feature here is a large low pressure system to the west of Scotland that is currently dominating the weather over the british isles.

The area to the east is already in shadow, ie nighttime, and is hence shown as black; the timestamp of the image is 2000 hours UTC.

Is this astronomy of the home planet?

 

[rmomota]

Nowadays you don't need an app to get good simulators, data, images, etc.
Unless of course you are looking to play XWing or other start wars kind game.
https://theskylive.com/planetarium is an example of what you can get for free in internet and a browser.

 

[hruodr]